Laure
Sandoz

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Psychology

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Bolivia (Plurinational State Of)
  • Spain
  • Switzerland