Ruth
McAreavey

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Rural