Ethel
Tungohan

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Subnational