Valatheeswaran
Chinnakkannu

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Roots migration
  • Health-related migration
  • Trafficking

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education