Cai
Chen

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Student mobility
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Belgium
  • China
  • Democratic Republic Of The Congo
  • France