Luz Helena
Rodríguez-Tapia

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Sociology

Methods

• 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • China
  • El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Mexico
  • United States Of America