Asha
Rathina Pandi

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Trafficking

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• 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

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Urban Studies