Irena
Grigoryan

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Armenia
  • Russian Federation
  • Turkey