Mert
Pekşen

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration governance and infrastructure

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Practices of 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

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Law and Legal studies

• Subject Areas

  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Cartographic

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Turkey