Azher Hameed
Qamar

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Social Work

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Sweden