Alisait
Yilkin

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • 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 student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental