Drifting in Dark Waters: Mediterranean boat journeys between (in)visibility and presence

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • Libya
  • Malta
  • Tunisia