Maria
Leybenson

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Multiple migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Germany