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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Irregular migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited