Julia
Mourao Permoser

Expertise

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Courts
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work
  • Studies of Religion
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual