Experts Database

Sofie Vindevogel, PhD in Educational Sciences, is affiliated to HoGent, Belgium. Her research is situated at the nexus of strengths-oriented, community-based and transcultural approaches. She has a particular interest in community resilience in contexts of collective violence and social injustice, and has been working with populations affected by armed conflict and political violence.

Dr Daniela VINTILA is Associate Coordinator and Senior Network Officer of IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège. She is also Maître de Conférences at CEDEM and chair of the ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity and of the IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unification. Currently, Daniela is member of the Belgian team of the EU-funded project "Social Inclusion and Access to Basic Services of Third-Country Nationals" (AccessIN). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her interests lie, especially, in the areas of international migration, EU citizenship, comparative politics, political participation and representation, and social protection policies.

Dr Lorella Viola is a Research Associate in Historical Linguistics & Digital Humanities at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) at the University of Luxembourg. Her research focusses on how language use reveals latent assumptions and circulates implicit ideologies in media and society and how migrants are depicted in the media. She is also interested in ethnic media and in questions of language and identity.

Ekaterina Vorobeva is a PhD candidate at the University of Bremen, Germany. Previously, she worked in research projects on forced migration, transnationalism and migrant entrepreneurship in Finland and Malta. She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Germany) in 2022, at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and at Harvard University (USA) in 2023. Ekaterina has published articles in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, Global Networks, and others.

Dr. Megha Wadhwa is a migration researcher and Japanese and South Asian Studies scholar. She is a Research Associate at Free University of Berlin, and a visiting scholar at Sophia University, Tokyo, which is also her alma mater. Her research passion lies in understanding the similarities and differences in the migration trends of Indians in Japan, Germany and other places around the globe. Her research focuses on identity, ethnicity, race, social class, women, and skills in migration. She is originally from New Delhi and was a resident of Tokyo for about 15 years before she moved to Berlin in 2021. She is the author of the book ‘Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds’ (Routledge:2021). She is also trained in fieldwork filming, and her recent documentaries are ‘Daughters from Afghanistan’ (2019), the 7-minute documentary ‘Indian cooks in Japan’ (2020), and Finding their Niche (Upcoming 2022)

Östen Wahlbeck holds a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick, UK (1997) and the Title of Docent in Sociology from the University of Tampere, Finland (2006) . He has worked as Professor of Sociology at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland, Professor of Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and Senior Lecturer in Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published widely in the field of international migration and ethnic relations, including several international monographs, several edited books, and more than 30 international refereed academic articles articles in journals like Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Ethnicities and Mobilities. In addition, he is the author of numerous book chapters published in various languages. His research interests include transnational migration, migrant businesses, refugee studies, and integration policies. He has been the project leader of several large research projects in these areas funded by the Academy of Finland and the European Commission.