Experts Index

Associate professor at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. My educational background is in religious studies and migration research. I have teaching, tutoring and course responsibilities at bachelor's, master and PhD levels. My research interests lie at the intersection of religion and migration,...

Ingrid Berns Pavezi is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Sociology, in Freiburg, Germany. Currently, she is also a doctoral research fellow at the Labor Migration Research Group and the Labor Europe and Europeanisation, at...

My research interests lie in how migration and processes of social categorization and stratification connect. In my PhD project I explored this nexus by studying the care work market in Spain and its connection to Bolivian transnational migration, and I am now focusing on how values and norms are negotiated...

I am a sociologist, specialising in migration studies. I have a BA in International Relations and Development Studies from Sussex University, UK, as well as a MA by Research in Evaluation Research and a PhD in Sociology, both from the University of Nottingham, UK. I currently work as a researcher at...

Inken Bartels is member of the research group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrueck. Her current research project investigates the production and circulation of statistical knowledge on migration...

My career as a researcher and university professor has been marked by interdisciplinarity, an approach by which I bet to analyze the complex and hybrid sociocultural reality in which we currently live the social sciences. Birth of an initial and postgraduate training in Social and Cultural Anthropology,...

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...