Rida
Riaz

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary

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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Canada
  • Pakistan
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland