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Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Social Work

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Luxembourg