Sonya
Sahradyan

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Methods

• 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

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Finland