Vaishali
Garg

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• 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)

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • India
  • Nepal
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Sri Lanka
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United States Of America