Zane
Melke

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Return policies
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Latvia