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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Brazil