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Dominant Theories
Micro-level or the individual triggers, resources, values and expectancies.
Meso-level or the collectives and social networks.
Macro-level opportunity structures: The political-economic-cultural-ecological structures on the level of nation-states, the country of origin and country of destination.
Diaspora and international migrations
Kin state and migrant-sending state Diaspora politics
Labor migration and remittances and donors’ engagement with diaspora (migration-development nexus)
Transnational migrant networks
Engagement in countries of origins
Second-generation ‘returnees’
Instrumentalizing diasporas for development
Political theory questions about transnationalism and Diaspora
Conflict and migration, and Migration management
Recent trends and patterns of conflict related migration
Gender, conflict and migration
Conflict–related migration and remittances
Conflict, migration and demographic outcomes
Post-conflict return migration and development
Regulatory framework of migration
Drivers of rural-urban migration
Push and pull factors of rural-urban migration
Selectivity in rural-urban migration (gender, education, age, ...)
Rural-urban migration and fertility change
Informal labor and housing markets
Critical role of informal market in migrant labour and housing
Informal economy: opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment, exploitation of migrant labour
Informal settlement/slums: affordability, housing quality, ownership
Managing urban growth
Land use and transportation planning
Policy challenges of urban growth: social cohesion, public safety, etc.
Service provision
Demand for public services (schools, health facilities, water, electricity, sanitation, waste management, etc…)
Level of services and willingness to pay
Population thresholds
Structure of provision
Divergent models of government service provision (public-private mix)
Public services provision in a decentralised context
Service provision assessment (SPA)
