Max
Nagel

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

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

• Migration infrastructures

  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Legal-political consequences

  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Political Science

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Network analysis
  • Big data analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Meta-analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Brazil
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Malaysia
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Turkey