Jill Alpes is a legal anthropologist working on migration from the perspectives of aspiring and deported migrants in the Global South. Based at CESSMA in Paris and the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University, her current projects examine mobility control as state-making and the emotional dimensions of return in the Syrian context. Jill is the author of "Abroad at any cost: Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa" and has published widely in the Journal...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • CESSMA

    Research Institute, Paris, France
    Senior Researcher

  • Institute for Migration Studies

    Research Institute, Beirut, Lebanon
    Senior Researcher

  • University of Utrecht

    University, Utrecht, Netherlands
    Researcher

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Other, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Post-doctoral Researcher

  • Centre for International Relations

    Other, Paris, France
    Visiting Fellow

  • Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

    Other, Berlin, Germany
    Post- doctoral Fellow

  • Danish Institute for International Studies

    Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Visiting Fellow

Research

Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions

Authors Maybritt Jill Alpes, Maybritt Jill Alpes, Kwamou Eva Feukeu, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
2 Journal Article

Reviews

Year 2008
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
17 Journal Article

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