Goshu Wolde Wolde
Tefera, PhD

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Australia
  • Ethiopia
  • United States Of America