Experts Database

Marita Ibañez Sandoval is a researcher and lecturer on Visual Studies. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, and based in Ibaraki, Japan. Currently pursuing doctoral studies in Photomedia at the Doctoral Program in Art at the University of Tsukuba. She received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and a master's in science degree in Kansei Design from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Ibañez is a Monbukagakusho Scholar of the Japanese Government, researching landscape, migration, and Latin American communities in Japan. Lecturer with more than a decade of experience at Universities in Peru and Japan. Her work has been presented in different cities in Latin America, Europe, the USA, Korea, and Japan. Ibañez is part of the Time Lab/McLeod Lab research group.

Dr. Aida Ibričević is an independent migration scholar and research consultant based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, affiliated as a Global Fellow with the Migration Center at the Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway and as a Research Fellow with the Center for Diaspora Studies, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. She contributes to the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in Bonn, Germany project Trajectories of reintegration: The impacts of forced displacement, migration and return on social change as a Senior Research Associate and delivers consulting services for IOM’s Labor Migration Project and UNDP’s Diaspora for Development project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also provides review services for a number of peer-reviewed, international academic journals. Her recent research interests include: external voting, drivers of highly skilled emigration, return migration and reintegration, with a particular focus on how emotions relate to politics and the connections between citizenship, home, and belonging. Aida Ibričević has an Economics B.A. from Middlebury College, United States, and an Economics M.A. from Central European University (CEU), Hungary. Her doctoral degree is in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, which she completed with a dissertation entitled Searching for Home and Belonging: A Qualitative Study to Understand the “Emotional Citizenship" of Diaspora Returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

My research on the intersection of visual culture, design and cultural history during the Cold War has recently focused on the visual and material qualities of illustrated magazines and their role in negotiating (inter)national belongings amongst emigre populations. I am particularly interested in the ways that what I call 'conscious graphic design', the juxtaposition of image and text and their entanglement amongst cultural producers and participants can encourage aesthetic and political shifts that intervene in the sociopolitical sphere.

I am a sociologist and I hold a Ph.D. degree in Political and Social Sciences from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium). I have several years of teaching and research experience, through which I developed expertise in migration studies (South-South migration, return migration, migration and development), particularly in South America, drawing on fieldwork experiences in Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil.

Dirk Jacobs (°1971) is full professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is affiliated to the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Institut de Sociologie. His main research topics are sociology of education and migration and integration policies.

He is the former director of GERME and currently director of EBxl, the research network for Brussels Studies at ULB.

Jacobs studied sociology at Ghent University and obtained his PhD in social sciences at Utrecht University in 1998. He is affiliated to ULB since 2004 and was appointed full professor in 2012. He has been an invited professor at Amsterdam University (UvA), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven et Vesalius College (VUB).

In 2011 he received an ERC Grant for the project “Equal opportunities for migrant youth in educational systems with high levels of social and ethnic segregation – assessing the impact of school team resources”.

He was one of the founding members of the G1000. He is a board member of asbl Pouvoir Organisateur Pluriel (les écoles plurielles) and of Foyer in Molenbeek.

Areej Jamal is a PhD researcher at the University College London, Social Research Institute. Her research focusses on South Asian migrants living in Saudi Arabia.