Benjamin
Gonzalez O'Brien

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

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
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • Other

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Urban