Taylor
Vaughn

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • 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
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Health-related migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • 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)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Norway
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Sweden
  • Uganda