Anders
Neergaard

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

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

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • 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
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Argentina
  • Nicaragua
  • Sweden