Karen Ravn
Vestergaard

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited