Uzma
Kazi

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration
  • Migrants' language skills
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Social Work

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Pakistan
  • Sweden