Shirin
Shahrokni

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled 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
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Algeria
  • Canada
  • France
  • Iran (Islamic Republic Of)