Meltem
Yilmaz Sener

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility

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

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • 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)

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Norway
  • Turkey
  • United States Of America