Ghislaine
El Abid

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Belgium
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Spain