Unpacking ‘status migration’: The racialized status politics of ‘skill’ in French-Maghrebi expatriation to Dubai

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • France
  • United Arab Emirates