Nur M.
Üstündağ

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

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

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

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

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Turkey