Josef
Neubauer

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on mobility

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International

• UN Countries

  • Malta
  • Nepal
  • Senegal