Caroline
Hornstein Tomic

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

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
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• 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)

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Croatia
  • Germany