Sari
Vanhanen

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Cultural norms and ties

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration

• Governance processes

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Other

  • Action research
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Subnational
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Finland