Joseph
Inyama

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Migrants and religion
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Intergroup relations and contact

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • Geography
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • Other

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Urban
  • Rural