Maria
Marchetti-Mercer

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Roots migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Psychology

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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • South Africa