BILAL
AHMAD MIR

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration governance and infrastructure

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Return migration
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Peace and Conflict studies
  • Social Work

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • India