Yixin
Zhang

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Internal migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • China