Cecilia
Olivieri

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Environmental Science
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Gender Studies
  • Social Work
  • 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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Subnational
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Italy