Experts Index

Vítor Lopes Andrade is a doctoral researcher in Social Anthropology in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. He holds a Master’s in Social Anthropology (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) and an undergraduate degree in International Relations (São Paulo State University, Brazil)....

I am broadly interested in the interplay of knowledge, space, memory and mediated digital and post-digital communication. In different perspectives and different research contexts, I examine these areas with a variety of questions and foci.In essence, I am interested in processes of transformation at...

Volha Vysotskaya is a research associate at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and specialises in the field of Social Change, Population Dynamics, and the Life Course. Her interests lie in research on transition, life course, mobility and migration. She is...

Waleed F. Mahdi is an associate professor and co-director of Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is a recipient of several national and international awards. His peer-reviewed work appears in top-tiered journals, including American Quarterly, Journal of American Ethnic History,...

Dr Wayne Palmer is a Southeast Asianist and a migration scholar with extensive experience providing paralegal assistance to migrant workers claiming labour and employment rights. He uses social-legal approaches to examine legal and policy frameworks that govern labour and migration.

Ms. Wegahtabrhan Sereke is a PhD assistant candidate at the institute for Public Communication in Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano. She is working on a research project titled “Migrant belonging: discourse, affect and capital” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jolanta Drzewiecka. Before that...

Wendy Altınörs is a PhD candidate focusing on multilevel lived experiences of integration through an intergenerational lens adopting use of positioning theory and ethnic boundary making as an analytical framework. She has a particular interest in migration histories, especially those of a Turkish migration...

Weronika Kloc-Nowak, PhD, is a sociologist employed at the Centre of Migration Research, Warsaw. She researches migrant families, with a particular focus on care, kinship and migrants' reproductive behaviours. Recent projects include "Grandparenting at a distance" a mixed-methods study of older Poles...

I am a senior researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and a guest researcher and lecturer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. I am the chair of the IMISCOE Board of Directors and a member of the IMISCOE executive...

Born in Cracow, Poland, Wiktor lives in London. He is an MSc International Social and Public Policy candidate at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He carries out his independent research affiliated in CASPAR lab, Cracow University of Economics. He works as a consultant...

Ecological anthropologist with 30 years experience in Europe and Asia, working across NGOs, universities, and government. Major projects on Indigenous knowledge and medicine, Buddhist migrant landscapes, and disabled-led research.

Willem Maas (PhD Yale), Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Public & International Affairs, and Socio-Legal Studies at York University, chairs Glendon Political Science, previously chaired Glendon Faculty Council for four years, and is also active in professional service, including...

Researcher and analyst in Geopolitics (International Security, Conflicts, Peace, Diplomacy in the Middle East/Asia/Horn of Africa with a focus on the Gulf). I have studied migrations in the Philippines, in the UAE as well as the Français de l'étranger (French diaspora).