Maria
Persdotter

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Social Work
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Sweden