Laura J.
Ogden

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Transnational migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on student and educational migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Ghana