Karin
Schittenhelm

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Asylum seekers
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Biography