Takahiko
Ueno

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Japan
  • Republic Of Korea
  • Spain