Ioana-Livia
Dobre

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & 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
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant health and care
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Romania
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland