Rubén
Romero Masegosa

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Environmental migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Human traffickers
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• 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
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation

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

  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• Other

  • Action research
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Network analysis
  • Big data analysis
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Meta-analysis

Geographies

• Scope

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

• UN Countries

  • Spain