Sunyoung
Park

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

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
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Republic Of Korea