Eveline
Odermatt

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Reincorporation of return migrants

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • 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

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• 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)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International

• Non-UN Territories

  • Kosovo
  • Transnistria

• UN Countries

  • Gambia (Republic Of The)
  • Guinea
  • Senegal
  • Switzerland