Daria
Delavar-Kasmai

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

Methods

• 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)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Ukraine