Marek
Okólski

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics

Methods

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental