Christina
Khoury

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure

• Transversal consequences

  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies

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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual