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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Roots migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science

Methods

• 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)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National

• UN Countries

  • India