Dr Zvezda Vankova is researcher at the Law Faculty of Lund University and the principal investigator of the project ‘Refugee protection or cherry picking? Assessing new admission policies for refugees in Europe’ (2023-2026) funded by the Swedish Research Council. She holds a PhD in Law from Maastricht University. The overall focus of her research aims to examine the interface of legal infrastructures pertaining to human mobility and how their enforcement influences the rights and trajectories of...

Expertise

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

Roles

  • Lund University

    University, Lund, Sweden
    Senior Research Fellow

  • Lund University

    University, Lund, Sweden

Research

Europe: the EU regulation of migration

Authors Petra Herzfeld Olsson, Zvezda Vankova
Year 2024
Book Title Research Handbook on Migration and Employment
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1 Book Chapter

Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Bulgaria

Authors Zvezda Vankova, Dragomir Kolev Draganov
Year 2020
Book Title Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1).
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5 Book Chapter

The external dimension of EU social security coordination

Authors Anne-Pieter van der Mei, Pauline Melin, Herwig Verschueren, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name European Journal of Social Security
9 Journal Article

Suggested Research

The EU’s Approach to Circular Migration in the Context of the Eastern Partnership Neighbourhood

Authors Zvezda Vankova
Year 2018
Book Title EU external migration policies in an era of global mobilities : intersecting policy universes
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1 Book Chapter

Migrant Integration Policy Index 2015

Authors Thomas Huddleston, Özge Bilgili, Anne-Linde Joki, ...
Year 2015
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4 Book

The cost of non-Europe in the area of legal migration

Authors Sergio CARRERA, Lina VOSYLIUTE, Zvezda VANKOVA, ...
Year 2019
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5 Working Paper
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