Andreas
Demuth

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• 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)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International

• UN Countries

  • Estonia
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland