Amelie
Harbisch

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• 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

  • Multi-sited