Feriha Nazda
Güngördü

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Internal migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

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