Dagmar
Soennecken

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Courts

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • National

• UN Countries

  • Canada
  • Germany
  • United States Of America