Amanda
Perera López

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

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

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Cuba