Rui Marques
Pinto

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

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

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Criminology
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Big data analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Germany