Usinskiene, Olga

The topic of migration has become increasingly significant for contemporary discussion due to its sharp rise. People migrate for a variety of reasons, such as seeking better employment, education, family reunification, or escaping persecution and armed conflicts. Migration management occurs on both national and international levels, involving collaboration between governmental and non-governmental organizations to create and implement policies that protect migrants’ rights, ensure their integration, and maintain community stability. Thus, the need to clarify migration-related terminology to large groups of users has increased considerably. The research aims to model the framework of concepts of the migration domain and contrast linguistic means used for formation of their designations based on the bilingual English-Lithuanian corpora data. The research results can be practically applied in several areas. Firstly, conceptual frameworks are essential for organizing knowledge within the migration domain. They are based on conceptual relationships, which help develop a clear picture of the specialized domain and its knowledge structures. This is important for experts who create and share knowledge, for the public seeking to acquire it, and for terminology managers. Secondly, nowadays conceptual frameworks are found inseparable from knowledge engineering, which is a form of artificial intelligence. They involve the identification, representation, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. And finally, the results of the research might be used for compilation of a terminological database of the migration domain benefiting migrants, migration institutions, students and translators.