Marika
Miminoshvili

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Other Humanities
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Studies of Religion
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Neighborhood