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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• 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
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Return policies

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Geography
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• Qualitative research

  • 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
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Latvia