Kerstin
Martel

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology