Irene
Schöfberger

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Environmental migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Internal migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • International Relations

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural