Gabriella
Angelini

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Border control

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • History
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Gender Studies

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
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • China