Dusan
Drbohlav

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Roots migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Czech Republic
  • Ukraine