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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

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

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • 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)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Bulgaria
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Turkey