POLAT S.
ALPMAN

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Irregular migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

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
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Quantitative text analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • International

• UN Countries

  • Turkey
  • United States Of America