Tamar
Kalichava

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Georgia
  • Greece
  • Italy
  • Poland