Michael
Collyer

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Algeria
  • Bangladesh
  • Democratic Republic Of The Congo
  • Egypt
  • Lebanon
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Pakistan
  • Somalia
  • Sri Lanka
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
  • United States Of America
  • Zimbabwe