Akife
Alan

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory