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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Migrants and religion
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Quantitative research

  • Network analysis
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual