Sascha
Dr. Krannich

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration

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
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• Non-UN Territories

  • Palestine

• UN Countries

  • Colombia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Mexico
  • United States Of America