Yafa
Shanneik

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

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
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Studies of Religion

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National