Laura Cleton is a postdoctoral researcher in return migration governance in Europe. At UNU-MERIT, she investigates the involvement of diaspora in capacity building and development through temporary return programs, facilitated by the International Organization for Migration. She investigates whether and how such programs enable the transfer of skills and knowledge to diaspora members’ countries of nationality. It not only questions what this process looks like and what (enduring) effects it has,...
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7746-352 |
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University
University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research
Performing freedom in the Dutch deportation regime: bureaucratic persuasion and the enforcement of ‘voluntary return’
| Authors | Laura Cleton, Sébastien Chauvin |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
The time politics of migrant deportability: an intersectional analysis of deportation policy for non-citizen children in Belgium and the Netherlands
| Authors | Laura Cleton |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“We have nothing to hide”: Legitimacy narratives, researcher positionality and the ethics of accessing the Dutch deportation apparatus
| Authors | Laura Cleton |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Goodman, Adam. 2020. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford. 322 pp.
| Authors | Laura Cleton |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Intersectional migration research: Re‐centring governance structures
| Authors | Laura Cleton, Laura Cleton, Sarah Scuzzarello, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Contesting policy categories using intersectionality: reflections for studying migration governance
| Authors | Laura Cleton, Petra Meier |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Our aim is to assist migrants in making a well-informed decision’: how return counsellors in Austria and the Netherlands manage the aspirations of unwanted non-citizens
| Authors | Laura Cleton, Reinhard Schweitzer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Legitimising detention and deportation of illegalised migrant families: reconstructing public controversies in Belgium and the Netherlands
| Authors | Nathan Wittock, Laura Cleton, Robin Vandevoordt, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |