Piaras
Mac Éinrí

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

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

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Ireland