Nassim is known for her work as an expert on return and reintegration, and more broadly on durable solutions to displacement, migrant aspirations, and cross border mobility. Over the last two decades, she has worked, as an academic and a research professional to give voice to under-represented groups and displaced populations, who find themselves caught in the hopes of migration and the despair of displacement and the difficulties of forced returns and deportations.
Nassim is based in the contexts that she studies - having lived between 2007-2014 in Afghanistan and since 2014 in Kenya and leads a team of researchers across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Her geographic and thematic portfolio of work has led her to work with a network of changemakers across the “North-South'' divide.
She is a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand, the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and the Université Houphouet Boigny. Institute for Good Governance, Development, and Foresight (IGDP).
Nassim has published 31 academic and policy articles and led over 200 studies on migration including the more recent publications: South Sudan’s Decades of Displacement: Understanding Return and Questioning Reintegration, and Tipping Points to Turning Points - How Can Programmes and Policies Better Respond to the risks of Child Trafficking and Exploitation on the Central Mediterranean Route?
In 2015, she was nominated by the Norwegian Refugee Council for the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award in recognition of her sterling work on behalf of Afghanistan’s displaced population. Nassim can also be seen giving interviews and participates in panels for media including the Associated Press, Radio France, and TV5 Monde.
Nassim holds a PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris, France, a MA in International Affairs and Development Studies and a BA from Cornell University, USA.
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Urban/Rural development and living standards
- Gender relations
- Poverty and inequality
- Climate change and environmental conditions
- Conflict, war and violence
- International relations and geopolitical transformations
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Cultural norms and ties
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Migration forms
- Refugees
- Asylum seekers
- Unaccompanied minors
- Internal displacement
- Environmental migration
- High-skilled migration
- Low-skilled migration
- Short-term and circular migration
- Transnational migration
- Labour migration
- Internal migration
- Irregular migration
- Multiple migration
- Return migration
- LGBTQ migration
- Trafficking
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Migration infrastructures
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
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Samuel Hall
Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Founder & Director -
Samuel Hall
Research Institute, Kabul, Afghanistan
Founder & Director
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Suggested Research
Assuming Reintegration, Experiencing Dislocation – Returns from Europe to Afghanistan
| Authors | Nassim Majidi |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Deterring Migration in Times of Crises: The Ethics of Behavioral Change in Migration Information Campaigns
| Authors | Nassim Majidi |
| Year | 2023 |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible use of technology
| Authors | Nassim Majidi |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Community Dimensions of Smuggling: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia
| Authors | Nassim Majidi |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Deportation Stigma and Re-migration
| Authors | Liza Schuster, Nassim Majidi |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 40 |
Storytelling in Research with Refugees: On the Promise and Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Participatory Research in Contexts of Forced Migration
| Authors | Adam Saltsman, Nassim Majidi |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 12 |
Re-Balancing the Reintegration Process and the Potential of Mentoring for Returnees: Evidence from Senegal, Guinea and Morocco
| Authors | Nassim Majidi, Ceri Oeppen, Camille Kasavan, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Migration and Integration |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
Journeys on hold: how policy influences the migration decisions of Eritreans in Ethiopia
| Authors | Richard Mallett, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Nassim Majidi, ... |
| Year | 2017 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |