Petra
Aigner

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Studies of Religion

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
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Austria
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
  • United States Of America