Nadia
Latif

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• 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)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Lebanon