Sheilamae
Ablay

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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
  • Longitudinal
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International

• UN Countries

  • Turkey
  • United States Of America