Kuldeepsingh
Rajput

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Other

  • 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • India