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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Private companies and business

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Environmental Science
  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios
  • Action research
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual