Diego
Castillo Goncalves

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• 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

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Theoretical / Conceptual