Kwaku
Arhin-Sam

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational