Taxonomy
System
The taxonomy of migration studies systematizes knowledge on migration, making it clearer and more accessible. It is the result of a collaborative approach to knowledge accumulation in migration research..
Topics
Migration processes
Migration drivers
- Civil and political rights
- Climate change and environmental conditions
- Conflict, war and violence
- Cultural norms and ties
- Economic and business conditions
- Education services and training opportunities
- Family size and structure
- Gender relations
- Globalisation and (post)colonialism
- Health services and situation
- International relations and geopolitical transformations
- Labour markets and employment
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Natural disasters and environmental shocks
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Political situation, repression and regime transitions
- Population dynamics
- Poverty and inequality
- Public infrastructure, services and provisions
- Transnational ties
- Urban/Rural development and living standards
Migration forms
- Asylum seekers
- Environmental migration
- Family and marriage migration
- Health-related migration
- High-skilled migration
- Internal displacement
- Internal migration
- Irregular migration
- LGBTQ migration
- Labour migration
- Lifestyle and retirement migration
- Low-skilled migration
- Multiple migration
- Refugees
- Return migration
- Roots migration
- Short-term and circular migration
- Student mobility
- Trafficking
- Transnational migration
- Unaccompanied minors
Migration infrastructures
- Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
- Civil society actors in travel & migration
- Economics facilitating travel & migration
- Governmental institutions in travel & migration
- Human smugglers
- Human traffickers
- ICT facilitating travel & migration
- International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
- Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
- Means of travel and transportation
- Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures
- Practices of facilitating travel & migration
- Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
- Tourism and migration
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Socio-cultural consequences
- Attitudes, migration and migrants
- Cultural identity and belonging
- Descendants of migrants
- Diasporas and transnational communities
- Ethnic, religious and national minorities
- Family relations and migration
- Interethnic contact and conflict
- Intergroup relations and contact
- Marriage and migration
- Media representations of migration
- Migrants and religion
- Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
- Migrants' language skills
- Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
- Upbringing of children and migration
Migration governance
Migration policy and law
- Asylum regimes
- Border control
- Diaspora engagement policies
- Family reunification policies
- Immigration admission and control (general)
- Policies on high-skilled migration
- Policies on irregular migration
- Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
- Policies on mobility
- Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
- Policies on student and educational migration
- Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees
- Return policies
Disciplines
Disciplines
Methods
Either/Mixed
Other
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
Types of study
Geographies
Non-UN Territories
UN Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Antigua And Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia (Plurinational State Of)
- Bosnia And Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Côte D'ivoire
- Democratic People's Republic Of Korea
- Democratic Republic Of The Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia (Republic Of The)
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States Of)
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic Of Korea
- Republic Of Moldova
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts And Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome And Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad And Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
- United Republic Of Tanzania
- United States Of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic Of
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe