Helena
Hof

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Brazil
  • Japan
  • Singapore