Daniel
Naujoks

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • 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
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

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

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • 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
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational