Experts Index

I am a social scientist by training in the field of Globalization, Migration, and Development. To further strengthen my interest in interdisciplinary research, I combine social science and humanities approaches to conduct my research on refugee populations. I am currently a Doctoral Researcher and my...

I am a scholar of social movements and migration and currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, with affiliations in Peace and Conflict Studies and American Studies. My research to date reflects my intellectual and personal interest in understanding how foreign workers, immigrants,...

Dr. Shelene Gomes is an Anthropologist who specialises in research, training and advocacy on social inclusion in migratory contexts, migrant networks, female labour migration, remittances, gender and development, gender-based violence, multiculturalism and diversity, and workplace discrimination. Over...

Shepherd Mutsvara is pursuing a joint doctorate program in Political Sciences and Administration with the Pedagogical University of Krakow and Ghent University. His research project focuses on the effects of economic liberalization on refugee movements in Sub-Saharan Africa. It seeks to establish if...

Dr Shilan Fuad Hussain is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow expert in Cultural Analysis and Gender Studies. She is an interdisciplinary academic and works on a variety of topics such as Gender, Culture, and Diaspora. Her current work sits at the intersection of sociology and cultural analysis, and its...

Shirin Shahrokni is a sociologist of race, racism, and migration processes. Her first book, published with Routledge in December 2020, documents the life trajectories of descendants of working-class North African migrants who have embarked on pathways of upward social mobility and entered France's elite...

Master's in Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany, 2005 (minors: Psychology and Philosophy) with a thesis on anti-immigrant attitudes in Europe. DPhil at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2009 on the cross-nationally comparable measurement of educational attainment for comparative survey...

Silvia Almenara Niebla works as postdoctoral researcher at Communication Studies Department (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). She works on the ERC project Reel Borders lead by prof. Kevin Smets. She obtained her PhD in gender and migration studies (Universidad de La Laguna, 2020, extraordinary doctoral prize)...

Silvia Cittadini is a post-doctoral researcher and consultant, specialised in the analysis of inclusion policies, anti-discrimination, minority protection and gender equality. She earned a PhD in Politics and Human Rights at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa in 2019, where she defended...

PhD in Anthropology at the University of Bologna, Silvia Pitzalis is currently a research fellow at the University of Urbino, Carlo Bo and adjunct professor in Anthropology at the University of Bologna and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Since 2007 she has been conducting research with ethnographic...

Dr Silvia Scarpa is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at John Cabot University of Rome (Italy). She passed the selection process held at the same institution and will be hired as Associate Professor of International Relations in 2021. Between 2013 and 2019 she also taught International Law at LUISS...