Laboratory Rotterdam. Logics of Exceptionalism in the Governing of Urban Populations

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Marriage and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

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

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Engineering and Architecture
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Other Humanities
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Gender Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Netherlands