Migration Impact Assessment
A Toolbox for Participatory Practices
Auhtors:
Stefan Kordel, Institute of Geography, FAU, Germany
Marika Gruber, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
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About the handbook
This handbook is designed as a toolbox for applied and practice-orientated migration and integration research. After a concise introduction to the most important concepts of transdisciplinary and participatory research, key methodological requirements and challenges are presented. At the heart of the book are the individual instruments that encourage collaborative evaluation of integration work and the impact of migration. This practice handbook, which also contains suggestions for reflection on and the dissemination of results, is aimed at academics, policymakers, practitioners in public administration and civil society organisations as well as volunteers.

Publication Date: 31 July 2024  | 978-3-7560-0447-8

About the Authors

Dr. Stefan Kordel is a social geographer and migration scholar who coordinates and conducts research projects focusing on various forms of mobilities and immobilities and its implications on the society. His research explores topics such as the consequences of immigration and its role in transformation processes in rural areas of Germany or Spain, volunteering for and among immigrants in rural areas, and how individuals develop attachments and staying orientation in the course of working migration, particularly in the (health)care sector. In his research and teaching activities, Dr. Stefan Kordel also develops qualitative and participatory methods tailored to the specific needs of certain target groups. Examples include mobility mapping or (im)mobility biography. Deploying a participatory research style, he aims to include participants and practitioners in almost every step of the research process.

Dr. Marika Gruber holds a diploma degree in Administration Sciences and a doctoral degree in Intervention Research (Applied Philosophy) with a focus on migration studies. She is a migration researcher and lecturer for inter- and transculturality and demographic change. In her international and national research projects she focuses on international migration processes in particular to rural areas and their social and economic impacts, integration policies and multilevel governance, labour market integration especially in the touristic and industrial sector, company onboarding, and social inclusion of high-skilled internationals as well as migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. With her research she puts special emphasis on the intersectionality of vulnerabilities and gender aspects, as well as transdisciplinary, participatory, and empowering research designs.

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