Nilay
Kilinc

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

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

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Sweden
  • Turkey