Table 2 Examples of the factors/variables involved in the development migrant typologies
From: Migration and health: a global public health research priority
• Migrant status: nationality; documentation status; tourists; business- travellers; job seeker; refugees; irregular migrants; asylum seekers; internally displaced persons; migrant workers | |
• Geography: rural to urban migrants; intra-urban migration; inter-regional migration; internal migration; transnational migration; return migration | |
• Temporality: weekly/monthly commuting; seasonal migration; labour related contractual migration; short-term or protracted migration; time in transit | |
• Socio-demographic status: age; gender; family structure; economic status; education level; level of professional and occupational skills | |
• Motivations/Causal classifications: job seeking; family reunification; asylum seeking; refugee resettlement; labour migration; student migration |