Andrea
Pacheco Pacifico

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • 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
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Roots migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Environmental Science
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • Other

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Brazil