Mehmet
Mutlu

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• 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)

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Turkey