Experts Index

Marie-Clare Balaam is a senior research associate in the Research in Childbirth and Health Unit (REACH) at UCLan. Her current research focuses on maternity care and social support for marginalised women with a particular focus on migrant women’s experiences of maternity care and childbirth in the UK...

Professor of law (EU law, HR Law, and Migration Law) at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Honorarium Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche carries out researches that focus on evaluating the legitimacy of the political systems of the European Union and its Member...

Experienced policy analyst with a demonstrated history of communicating immigration and economic issues to diverse audiences. Expertise in survey administration, data collection and management as well as performing advanced statistical analyses in Stata statistical software. Over 15 years of experience...

Marietta Messmer is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her publications focus on the political and cultural relations between the U.S. and Latin America, Mexican and Central American migration to the U.S., violence in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands,...

I am a PhD student in social policy and social work, researching how labor market policies and related regulations influence the challenges faced by highly educated female Ukrainian immigrants during their long-term integration in the Czech Republic. My work lies at the intersection of social policy,...

PhD, Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt; Researcher at the International Center for Migration Policy Development

Marika Gruber holds a diploma degree in Administration Sciences and a doctoral degree in Intervention Research (Applied Philosophy) with a focus on migration studies in rural areas. She is a migration researcher and lecturer at the School of Management and the Disability & Diversity Studies programmes...

Marika Miminoshvili is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her main research interests relate to labor (high-skilled) migrants' work-related experiences. In particular, the impact of the perceived workplace exclusion-inclusion on labor...

Marina Liz Beltran holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology and is currently a doctoral fellow pursuing a PhD in Administration and Public Policy at the University of Córdoba, Argentina. Her main research interests include the political organization and participation of migrants in local contexts,...

Mariña Fernández-Reino (PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) is a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Migration Observatory. She is currently the PI of a research project investigating migrants’ lived experiences of the UK immigration system, for which she is recruiting...

Marina Lazëri is a PhD candidate within the Becoming a Minority (BaM) project at the department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research is focused on national identity within an ethnically diverse context. She is also interested in studying social marginalization and how it relates...

Marina Lazetic the Director of Programs at the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University and a PhD candidate at the Fletcher School whose research focuses on civil society response to migration and securitization of borders. Throughout her academic and professional career, she has worked and...

My research in this field is based on studies on coaches' migration. Over the past years, I have been studying the perceptions of migrant coaches in relation to their recruitment process, motivations to migrate and migration experience as a whole. I have also investigated the patterns and networks of...

Much of my work focuses on contributing to the development of concepts and methods for the spatial assessment of vulnerability and risk in the context of environmental transformation. I have conducted research in Congo, Senegal, Algeria, India & Ethiopia and I have significant experience in population-based...