Lorena
Izaguirre

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Biography

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

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

• UN Countries

  • Brazil
  • Ecuador
  • Peru