Yvan
Gastaut

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Roots migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Subnational