Stella Louise
Wolter

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Transnational migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Age-related migration consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• 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

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods
  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification

• Types of study

  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual