Joana
Figueiredo

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Urban Studies

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global