Oksana
Mikheieva

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement

• Migration infrastructures

  • 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
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Age-related migration consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • 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

  • Immigration admission and control (general)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Gender Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• 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
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Ukraine