Visual Border Politics: Images and Migration Governance in Europe

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity