John
Mollenkopf

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

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
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Geography
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Big data analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • United States Of America