Laxman
Lamichhane

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Environmental migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Law and Legal studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Theoretical / Conceptual