Yajna
Govind

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

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

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics

Methods

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Big data analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • National