Boyang
Yin

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Internal migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Gender Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • China