Nassim
Majidi

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • LGBTQ migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Afghanistan
  • Ethiopia
  • France
  • Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Somalia
  • Tunisia
  • United Arab Emirates