Categorising What We Study and What We Analyse, and the Exercise of Interpretation

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • France
  • Greece
  • Netherlands
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland