Jaafar
Alloul

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Marriage and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Action research

• 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)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban