Sousso
Bignandi

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics

Methods

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National