Rohini
Mitra

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • 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)