Eric
Hahonou

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Burkina Faso
  • Denmark
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria