Melanie
Griffiths

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Criminology
  • Geography
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work

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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Afghanistan
  • Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
  • Iraq
  • Jamaica
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland