Senegalese migrants in Italy: Beyond the assimilation/transnationalism divide

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • Senegal