Lin
Chen

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • 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
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Marriage and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • 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
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Other Humanities
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios
  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • China