Massoud
Sharifi

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual