Elina
Jonitz

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • 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
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Netherlands