Where, What and Whom to Study? Principles, Guidelines and Empirical Examples of Case Selection and Sampling in Migration Research

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

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

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Albania
  • Belarus
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Russian Federation
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland