Aurélia M.
Ishitsuka

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • China