When Borders Migrate: Reconstructing the Category of ‘International Migrant’

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • International relations and geopolitical transformations

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Geographies

• Scope

  • National