Megan
Carney

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Environmental migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Extremism and migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • United States Of America