Anja
Schmidt-Kleinert

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Civil and political rights
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers

• Migration infrastructures

  • 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
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies

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
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Russian Federation
  • Ukraine