Iris
Egea Quijada

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

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
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• 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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Ireland
  • Spain