Yvonne
Khor

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Labour migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Bangladesh
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Nepal
  • Philippines