Experts Database

Bashar Malkawi is Global Professor of Law at University of Arizona, where he teaches in the undergraduate Bachelor of Law program at UA and OUC-UA legal program. Bashar H. Malkawi received his S.J.D from American University, Washington College of Law, and LLM in International Trade Law from University of Arizona. He is well-versed in teaching and providing legal advice with 20+ years' experience in private and public sectors.

Dr. Marie Mallet-Garcia is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at the University of Oxford. She earned her doctorate at the Paris Sorbonne University in 2013. Her dissertation qualitatively and comparatively analyzed Latino political participation in Boston, Los Angeles, and Miami.

Prior to joining COMPAS, Dr. Mallet-Garcia spent four years in residence at Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar and a postdoctoral researcher in the sociology department. She has won funding from various American Institutions such as the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Cornell University, as well as several European fellowships, notably a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND at Freie Unviversität Berlin, a EURIAS fellowship at the Casa de Velazquez, and an MSCA Individual fellowship at the University of Oxford.

Her research interests include immigrants’ integration into the host society through access to and use of social services. She is particularly interested in Latin American immigrants in the United States and the European Union, as well as irregular and other vulnerable migrant groups. Her work has been published in Latino Studies, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, California Journal of Politics and Policy, American Behavioral Scientist, the Swiss Journal of Sociology, New Media & Society, and Social Policy Review among others.

Bishawjit Mallick is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at University of Colorado Boulder, USA and holds a researcher position at Chair of Environmental Development and Risk Management at TU Dresden, Germany. His current research focuses on the historical grounding of non-migration (the reasons why people voluntarily remain in place for generations, how the social, environmental and political regime contributes to staying put).

Cigdem Manap is a Visiting Scholar at Brandenburg University of Technology. Before, she was an assistant professor at Department of Sociology, Suleyman Demirel University and Research Fellow at Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Her research and publications focus on international migration, refugees and asylum seekers, social exclusion, migration policies of Turkey and Europe.

I am an Associate professor of Political Science at the International relations institute of Cameroon (IRIC). Former PhD fellow at Sciences Po / CEVIPOF in Paris, France (2007-2010), I defended a PhD thesis entitled "The virtual citizenship and new forms of political participation of Cameroonian Immigrants in France". My teaching and research domains are Public Policies in Africa, Migration and Citizenship in Africa, Migration and Expertise, Social Crises, Migration and Cultures.

Stefan Manser-Egli is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant in Transnational Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. His PhD thesis enquires into the social imaginaries produced by ‘integration’ and, in particular, the requirement of adopting ‘liberal values’. He has a background in International Relations, Political Philosophy and Gender Studies and is associated with the ‘nccr – on the move’, the National Center of Competence in Research for migration and mobility studies.

Debora Mantovani is associate professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Science of the University of Bologna. Her main research interests include the sociology of migration and education. Her works are primarily focused on children of immigrants and, in particular, the following topics: school integration, educational achievement and attainment, national identity, employment aspirations and expectations, social class inequalities, and the operationalization of the concept of “foreigner”.

I have more than 15 years of work experience in international economics, migration, human capital and labour market. Over these years I have accumulated a wide work experience with a regional focus, not only in the Western Balkan countries, EU and EU-CEE, but also other EU neighbouring regions such as southern and Eastern neighbouring regions.