Adem Muzaffer
Erol

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Roots migration
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • Geography
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Turkey