Why is the recognition of credentials not just a matter of good will? Five theories and the Austrian case

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Austria