Experts Index

Ramesh Timsina, an M. A. in English Literature from Tribhuvan University, has been pursuing an MSc in Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He has worked as an English teacher for seven years. He is keenly interested in literature, literary theories, cultural studies,...

I am the Founder and Executive Director of Equidem Research Nepal, a human rights and labour rights research organization. I have been managing Equidem's work in Nepal, including research team as well as field researchers in Nepal and in other countries including the Gulf. In addition, I am working as...

Ramona Rischke is an empirical migration and integration researcher. After studying international economics, she obtained her doctorate in development economics at the University of Göttingen. She has been conductig research on multi-dimensional poverty and inequality in low- and middle income countries,...

Ranabir Samaddar is the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group and Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration...

She is currently working on the second book on Migration and Islam in Russia. She edited a book with a colleague from Lund University titled: “ Labour, Mobility and Informal practices in Russia: Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space” published in 2021 by Routledge. She has been...

Raphaela Schweiger is the Director of the Programs Migration and Immigration Society at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Her work and expertise span a broad spectrum of integration and migration policies in Germany, Europe, and globally – from addressing racism and discrimination to fostering integration and...

I'm an anthropologist. I became interested in Arab and Muslim contexts, which are central to my academic work. Initially in Mauritania and Morocco, more recently in Portugal. My themes of research are gender and family but I often go where the fieldwork takes me. I integrate a collective of anthropologists...

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and researcher at the University Institute for Tourism Research of the University of Alicante (IUIT-UA). My current interests are focused on lifestyle mobilities, tourism social sustainability and accessible tourism.

Dr. Raquel Sáenz Ortiz's research examines how educators shape the ethnic identities of immigrant-origin youth, both positively and negatively. She has also researched culturally sustaining pedagogies for immigrant youth. She began her teaching career as a 6th grade Social Studies teacher in South Texas,...

since 08/2022 Head of Master Social Work, location Lucerne; Lecturer and project management since 09/2013 Lecturer UZH, BFH, FHNW, ZHAW, University of Fribourg, University Halle Wittenberg 08/2018-08/2022 Research assistant (post-doc) in the research project "Unaccompanied Minor Refugees in Institutional...

Rebecca Murray is a Lecturer in Sociological Studies teaching across Sociology and Social Work. She is a member of the Sanctuary advisory group and the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Rebecca sits on the national University of Sanctuary steering committee, following the merger...

Professor Rebecca Wickes’ research focuses on neighbourhood social processes and their effects on crime and other social problems in Australia. She takes an interdisciplinary approach and is the lead investigator on the Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS) – a multi-million-dollar project largely...

Rebecca Wickes is the Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. She is an Associate Professor and Head of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. Her research focusses on demographic changes in urban communities and their influence on social cohesion and the concentration...