Shelene
Gomes

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Health-related migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • 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
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • 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
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Studies of Religion
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Meta-analysis
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Ethiopia
  • Guyana
  • Jamaica
  • South Africa
  • Trinidad And Tobago