Cristina Paola
Montefusco

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood