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Sólveigar- og Guðmundsdóttir

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

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

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • 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)

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Iceland