Alejandro
Goldberg

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

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

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • 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

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

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

• UN Countries

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia (Plurinational State Of)
  • Brazil
  • Cabo Verde
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Portugal
  • Senegal
  • Spain