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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Policies on student and educational migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Social Work

Methods

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • Romania