Eka
Meladze

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Student mobility
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • Other

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global

• Non-UN Territories

  • Abkhazia
  • South Ossetia
  • Crimea
  • Nagorniy Kharabach

• UN Countries

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Russian Federation
  • Ukraine