Visual Encounters in Global Shanghai. On the Desirability of Bodies in a Coworking Space

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Migrant networks

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • China