Tamlyn
Monson

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography
  • International Relations
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • South Africa
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland