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- Community migration
- Economic aid
- Emigration
- EU migration policy
- Forced migration
- Freedom of movement
- Geopolitics
- Humanitarian aid
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- Migration
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- Social integration
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300 Social sciences
- 304.8 Movement of people
304.82 International movement - 307.2 Communities in flux
320 Political sciences
- 320.12 Geopolitics
- 323.631 Non-citizens
- 325 International migration and colonization
325.1 Immigration
325.2 Emigration
325.21 Refugees
340 Law
360 Social problems and services
- 362.87 Refugees
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- MT (MicroThesaurus): subset of a thesaurus, usually containing terms from a subject area narrower than the scope of the whole thesaurus;
- NT (Narrower Term): used to indicate the relationship of the generic concept to a more specific one, together with an indication of the number of hierarchical steps between the broader term and each narrower term;
- RT (Related Term): preferred label for a concept that has an associative relationship with the one in question.
28 Social questions
MT 2811 migration
- migration
RT International Organisation for Migration
NT1 immigration
NT1 return migration
RT migrant worker
NT1 family migration
RT rights of aliens
NT1 forced migration
RT freedom of movement
RT refugee
NT1 frontier migration
NT1 community migration
NT1 occupational migration
NT1 migration policy
RT foreign national
RT residence permit
NT2 integration of migrants
RT acculturation
RT racism
RT social integration
NT1 migration control
NT3 illegal migration
NT2 EU migration policy
NT1 migratory movement
NT1 migrant
NT1 diaspora
NT1 emigration
NT1 female migrant
NT1 circular migration
NT1 economic migration
RT economic aid
RT economic situation - internal migration
NT1 rural migration
NT1 migration from the countryside to the town
NT1 seasonal migration
NT1 nomadism
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Search journals by Decimal Dewey Classification
300 Social sciences
- 304.8 Movement of people
320 Political sciences
340 Law
- 342.083 Citizenship and nationality
360 Social problems and services
- 362.87 Refugees
Search journals by subject (below are a few examples)
- Community migration
- Economic aid
- Forced migration
- Humanitarian aid
- Humanitarian law
- Inclusion
- Migration
- Refugee
- Social integration
eJournal collections
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Among the largest collections:
Brill online Books and Journals
Oxford Academic Journals: HSS Collection
SAGE Journals
- Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
- International Migration Review
- Journal on Migration and Human Security
SpringerLink
- Journal of international humanitarian action
- Comparative migration studies
- Journal of International Migration and Integration
Taylor & Francis Online Journals
Wiley Online Library
Free resources
- Cestim – Centro studi immigrazioni
- CSER – Centro Studi Emigrazione Roma
- Eurostat - International migration, citizenship
- Eurostat - Migration and migrant population statistics
- Eurostat - Publications - Migration and asylum
- Frontex – European Border and Coast Guard Agency
- Istat - Immigrati.Stat
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- International Organization for Migration
- Journal of migration and health
- Refugee Processing Center (RPC)
- RefWorld
- UN Refugees and Migrants
- UNHCR United Nations Refugee Agency
- World Bank - Migration
- World Bank - Migration | Data
- World Bank’s Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD)