Belinda
Leach

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • 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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Canada
  • India
  • Trinidad And Tobago