Ieva
Birka

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Intergroup relations and contact

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Norway
  • Sweden