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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • 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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Egypt
  • Lebanon
  • Netherlands
  • Syrian Arab Republic