Maria de los Angeles
Cerda-Gonzalez

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Age-related migration consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Legal analysis (laws)

Geographies

• Scope

  • International