Glossary

Successful collaboration begins with a shared language, hence the need for a glossary. This joint effort of contributors from several teams ensures, on the one hand, terminological and conceptual coherence across not only our theoretical approaches, but also the qualitative case studies and quantitative research conducted in OPPORTUNITIES. On the other hand, our glossary facilitates communication between the academic side of the project and the fieldwork conducted by NGOs, uniting our teams working from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Mauritania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Senegal.

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Successful migration requires not only strong motivation, access to financial resources, and some luck but also sufficient know-how, including interpersonal skills, language skills, crosscultural skills (important for negotiations with stakeholders, accessing social networks, etc.), technical skills, and competencies (for accessing labor markets at destination), information about regular and irregular options for migration, as well as geographic, cultural and legal knowledge, psychological resources and a high degree of resilience.

⇢ see also: Migration

References and further reading:

Tandian, Aly, and Tall, Serigne Mansour 2010. Regards sur la migration irrégulière des Sénégalais : vouloir faire fortune en Europe avec des pirogues de fortune [Technical Report, Migration Policy Centre]. CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes 2010/50. URL: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/14405.

Category: A

Work Package: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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