Katherine
Mackinnon

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Poverty and inequality
  • Civil and political rights
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Other Humanities

• Subject Areas

  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• 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)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland