Brunilda
Zenelaga

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental

• UN Countries

  • Albania