Experts Index

Thusinta Somalingam received her PhD in Pedagogy and Education from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany in 2015. Her doctoral research explored the construction of diaspora and the creation of ethno-national belongings through education organisations of the Sri Lankan Tamils abroad. She has...

I am an inquisitive mind passionate about uncovering the social forces behind migration, borders, and transnational connections. As an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yunnan University, I bridge disciplines through research and fieldwork, from global trade hubs to policy debates. With a background...

Based in Austria; specialisation in industrial relations and sociology of work; research areas: labour migration and worker mobility; trade union politics, automotive industry in the Visegrad countries, platform economy.

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Criminal Law, Tilburg University. Background in political science, public policy, and human rights. Research focus on refugee reception and settlement in Southeastern Europe, migration governance at the national and the local level, and private/community-based...

Tiina Seppälä holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Lapland. Her PhD thesis (2010) dealt with the anti-war movement and theories of global resistance. She is interested in activism, social movements, development, forced migration, displacement, postcolonial and feminist theory,...

Tim Fadgen is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations specialising in public policy and law at the University of Auckland. His research explores immigration policy and law with a focus on deportation. His interests are in the lived-experiences of deportees and immigration lawyers and...

I am a senior researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Mobility and Migration department), also associated with CISPAC – Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes, and co-founder and co-director of INTEGRIM Lab. I am interested in minority representation, identity politics,...

Ph.D Researcher in Sociology at Georg-August University of Gottingen (Germany) and at Leiden University's African Studies Centre (the Netherlands). Currently a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Insitute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Interests in transnational migration in South Africa,...

Education 1987-1993 -Georgian Technical University, Automated Control Systems; 2006-2008 - Georgian Technical University, Automated Control Systems - Academic Degree of a Doctor. Professional experience; Gori(Georgia) State University, Associate Professor- 2007/2019. Director organization -...

Tineke Fokkema is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), in the Families & Generations group, and endowed professor Ageing, Families and Migration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within IMISCOE, she is coordinator of the Standing Committee ‘Older...

Tiziana Caponio, PhD in Political Science at the University Cesare Alfieri of Florence, is currently Marie Curie Research Fellow at MPC with the project ‘Migration Policy in Multilevel Political Settings. City Networks in Europe and North America (MInMUS)’. Her research focus on migration policy and...

Phd, she is a researcher on the issues of socio-educational inclusion processes of minorities from a gender perspective. She is currently a research fellow at the FORLILPSI Department of the University of Florence.

I am working as PostDoc at the Chair of Cultural Geography and Development Research at the Institute of Geography of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where I am focusing on the topics immigration to rural areas, rural tourism and regional development. I graduated in Cultural Geography...

Tolga Sakman started his studies on Diaspora (especially Turkish Diaspora) during his Master's Degree and made several publications on the subject. He has also studies and published on migration and the security of migration. Having worked at a think tank and university, Sakman continues his doctoral...

My PhD research focuses on how refugee-background children in the UK experience language education in schools. This necessarily draws on their geographic and social trajectories, their experiences of integration into schools, classrooms, and local communities, and the state of English as an Additional...

Tommaso Vitale (Ph.D in Sociology, MA in Political Science, both at the University of Milan) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris, France) where he is the scientific director of the Master "Governing the Large Metropolis" (Sciences Po Urban School), and a researcher at Centre d'études...

PhD from the University of Oslo in sociology.

Tongming is a PhD student in sociology and social policy within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in diversity and interdisciplinary. She currently focuses on rural-urban migration, return migration, labour migration and rural tourism. She does...