Yahya
Al-abdullah

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • 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
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• 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

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Demography
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• Non-UN Territories

  • Palestine

• UN Countries

  • France
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Turkey