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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Trafficking

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• 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

  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Subnational