Mette Evelyn
Bjerre

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited