Bart
Lambert

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Quantitative research

  • Network analysis
  • Big data analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Belgium
  • Italy
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland