Elena
Genova

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Bulgaria
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland