Elena
Sánchez-Montijano

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Political Science

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Egypt
  • Lebanon
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Spain
  • Tunisia