Nodira
Kholmatova

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • 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

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Asylum seekers
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

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

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Russian Federation
  • Serbia
  • Tajikistan
  • Uzbekistan