Anselm
Böhmer

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on student and educational migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Other Humanities

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Australia
  • Germany
  • Romania
  • United States Of America