Jinpu
Wang

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business 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

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

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

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International

• UN Countries

  • China
  • Ghana