Experts Index

Dr. Inta Mierina is the Director of The Center for Migration and Diaspora Research and tenured professor at the University of Latvia Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. She has directed several research grants on migration, including the ESF research grant “The Emigrant Communities of Latvia,”...

Ioanna Blasko is currently doing her PhD in human geography at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research concerns the labour market integration paths of highly skilled refugees in Sweden.

Ioannis Limnios-Sekeris obtained his Ph.D. in 2023 from the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University, Greece. His Ph.D. research deals with the relationship between the specialised on migration international organisations, and the private sector between 1951 and 1980....

I am Professor of Diaspora Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Recently I have been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 3 years on a project ‘On the Margins of Whiteness: How do Migrants Negotiate Racial Alliances?’. I am the Director of Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies,...

Iraklis Dimitriadis is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. He received his PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research from the University of Milan and University of Torino with the distinction of Doctor Europaeus. He holds...

I have obtained a BA in Political Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey (2011), a MA in "Current Democracies Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturalism" Program (2018) and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Pompeu Fabra University (2024) in Barcelona, Spain. My main lines...

Having studied skilled migration, return migration and diaspora repatriation in the context of my home country, Armenia, I have now embarked on an academic boat in Istanbul, Turkey. My doctoral research focuses on the modern labor migration of Armenians to Turkey in the context of the Eurasian migration...

Award-winning filmmaker and PhD fellow at VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & UC3M (University Carlos III of Madrid) researching Migration, Borders and Cinema in the ERC Starting Grant Project REEL BORDERS. More info: https://reelborders.eu/Irene-profile

Irene Gutiérrez Torres is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M). Her work explores migration and bordering dynamics through participatory filmmaking. She is a researcher in the projects Reel Borders (European...

Irene Peano trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, where she received her PhD in 2011. She has previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Bologna, where she held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship, and at the University of Bucharest. For more than fifteen...

Irene Ponzo is the Deputy Director of FIERI. She has a background in political sociology and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Sociological Research from the University of Turin (Italy). Her main research interests concern integration policies and asylum governance, with a prevailing focus on the local level...

I am a PhD candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. My PhD project identifies and conceptualizes the 'New Migration Cronica', a new form of political and journalistic writing authored, or co-authored, by people on the move in post-2015 Europe. Previously, I studied...

Dr. Irene Schöfberger is a data and research officer at IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin. Prior to joining GMDAC, she has worked in research and policy advice in several countries, including Senegal, Chile, Germany, France and Belgium. She has conducted research on EU-Africa...

Irene Tuzi is a sociologist of migration with particular expertise in ethnography, refugee studies, gender studies and the Middle East. She holds a double PhD in Social Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome and Humboldt University of Berlin, received with honour (summa cum laude). She is currently...

I am a researcher, consultant, lecturer, and project manager with a particular focus on racism, white supremacy and the political economies of African migration. My work in South Africa and beyond has a strong emphasis on racial and social justice. In particular, I focus on the systematic curtailment...

Irina is a PhD candidate at the Law School of Tilburg University, Netherlands. She holds a M.A. in European Global Studies with a research focus on migration, peace and conflict from the University of Basel, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Zurich. Her doctoral project investigates...