Olena
Ovchynnikova

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Geography

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios
  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Network analysis
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis
  • Other