Morgan
Etzel

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Transnational migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Spain
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Turkey