Abay
Debele

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Conflict, war and violence

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National