Yueyue
Gao

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • One sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • China