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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies

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)

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National