Débora
Gerbaudo Suárez

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Environmental migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Internal migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • 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
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

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

  • Anthropology
  • Environmental Science
  • Geography
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Other Humanities
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Cartographic
  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual