Melissa
Mouthaan

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global

• UN Countries

  • Ghana
  • Senegal