Mehmet Rauf
Kesici

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

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
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • History
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Social Work
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Network analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual