Ritapriya
Nandy

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & 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
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Marriage and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • 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
  • Courts

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • 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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Bangladesh
  • India