Patricia Bárbara
Flores

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

• Governance processes

  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Development Studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Gender Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration