Pınar Dilan
Sönmez Gioftsios

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration

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
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Turkey