Alexandra
David

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

• 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

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement 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

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Switzerland