A. Hyppolyte
Kouao

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA
  • Other

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Côte D'ivoire
  • Democratic Republic Of The Congo
  • France
  • Mali
  • Senegal