Erica
Dobbs

Expertise

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Subnational