Felicia
Istad

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Education services and training opportunities

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

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

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Disciplines

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

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

  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Republic Of Korea