Natasha
Nicholls

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

• Types of study

  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National

• UN Countries

  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland