Experts Index

Chiara Denaro is a Postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at Trento University on the project “Debordering activities and citizenship from below of asylum seekers in Italy” and research assistant in Law and Criminology at Edge Hill University, on the “Extern” Project. She is an experienced social worker...

I am an expert in childhood and South-South migration who combines an academic and non-profit career: I have worked for more than 10 years with various NGOs, and I was awarded a PhD in Sociology in September 2021, exploring the experiences and identity construction of young West African children living...

Ching-An Chang is an associate professor from the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan (R.O.C.). His research interests include 1) Middle East studies (with a special focus on the Levant), 2) refugee, migration, and diaspora in the Middle East, and 3)...

Dr. Christian Hunkler studied social sciences and marketing in Mannheim, Utrecht, and Bloomington. He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from Mannheim University with a thesis on ethnic inequality in access to dual vocational education. After his dissertation he worked for the Max Planck Institute...

Christian Albrekt Larsen (CAL) has specialised in the question of how to build social coherent societies in open economies and multicultural settings. The academic work of CAL demonstrates that the institutional structure behind the “Nordic model” still provides a promising answer to this fundamental...

I'm a Sociologist with a specific interest in Migration Studies, Transnationalisation and Empirical Social Research. In my PhD thesis I analysed dynamics of change in transnational families. I coordinated an action oriented project on local integration policies and intra-EU mobility between Romania,...

Christian Ungruhe is a trained anthropologist with a strong interdisciplinary approach and working experience in the fields of human geography, global history, sport sociology and social anthropology. In his research, he focusses on issues of migration and mobility in the realm of youth, gender, work...

PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California. His lines of research are youth, public space, digital cultures, and citizenship.

Christiane Fröhlich researches human mobility within and from the Global South at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Her regional focus is mainly on the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Turkey), where she has conducted extensive field research, but...

Dr. Christiane Heimann is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training and at the German Marshall Fund of the US. She holds expertise as academic researcher and policy analyst in various topics of migration and integration. In these areas she has worked and published...

Current Position: Head of the interdisciplinary Research Group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration" at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, Germany, and Adjunct Lecturer of Modern European History at the University of Leipzig. I am...