RANABIR
SAMADDAR

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Other Humanities
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Peace and Conflict studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • Other

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)
  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Network analysis
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Bangladesh
  • India
  • Nepal