Christin
Achermann

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Personal resources and migration experience

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Courts

• 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)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National
  • Subnational