Marcela
Gola-Boutros

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Irregular 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
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Brazil
  • Haiti
  • Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic Of