Swetlana
Torno

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Russian Federation
  • Tajikistan