Experts Database

Marta Salinaro is a Research fellow at the University of Bologna. She obtained her Ph.D. in Pedagogical Sciences at the Department of Educational Sciences "Giovanni Maria Bertin", University of Bologna . Her research interests are aimed in particular at the study of intercultural phenomena and the different forms of social inclusion in complex societies, through a pedagogical approach. She carries out her research in the field of migration studies, on the reception and integration system of asylum seekers and refugees, on the role and pedagogical skills of caseworkers and on the training aspects related to this field of investigation.

Lisa was awarded a PhD in Sociology in 2014 from Uppsala University. Her research intrerest are primarily in sociology of work, labour maket integration, segregation, skilled migration and refugee studies, and professional boundary work. Lisa was also the chair of the Swedish migration research association 2016-2018 (IMER-förbundet).

Monika Salzbrunn holds a full professorship in „Religions, Migration, Arts“ at Lausanne University. She is the first female scientist in Switzerland to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant in Social and Human Sciences, for her project on ARTIVISM. Art and Activism. Creativity and Performance as Subversive Forms of Political Expression in Super-Diverse Cities. Prof. Salzbrunn was director of the Research Institute for Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions (ISSRC) from 2011 until 2015. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the projects „(In)visible islam in the city: material and immaterial expressions of muslim practices within urban spaces in Switzerland“ and "Undocumented Mobility (Tunisia-Switzerland) and Digital-Cultural Resources after the 'Arab Spring'", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Dora Sampaio (PhD Human Geography, Sussex) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, where she explored the (im)mobilities of transnational ageing and caregiving with a focus on ageing Brazilian parents and their migrant offspring in North America and Europe, taught at the University of Sussex, and was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon, where she collaborated in a number of international projects in the field of Migration Studies. Her research interests include international migration, life course, intergenerational relationships, socio-spatial inequalities, and urban displacement, primarily in Brazil and Portugal.

I have done research on migration-related themes for more than fourteen years. Worked at international organisations in Turkey and universities in five different countries (Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, Turkey, UK). Currently, I am engaged in my post-doctoral research at the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca. I am reviewing for a couple of important scientific journals on migration and my research interests are quite broad: highly skilled migrants from Italy and Turkey and brain drain, mobility vs. migration from a theoretical lens, Turkish migration policies in the light of Turkish-EU relations, temporary migration policies in Canada and the UK, literary works of Turkish-Kurdish authors in exile, integration policies regarding migrants and refugees, and cultural policies and cultural heritage in Italy (this is more based on my political science background).

My name is Eduardo and I’m 36. I’m a journalist by education and profession, and a researcher in migration studies currently based in the city of Dakar, in Senegal.
Before moving to Senegal, I spent five years living in Myanmar, two years in Ghana and six years in Kenya. In these places I worked as a foreign correspondent for several newspapers and radio stations covering different issues, such as ethnic conflict, gender violence or economic development. Along with a degree in Journalism by the University Complutense of Madrid, I have two Master of Arts: one in Journalism and one—from SOAS University of London— in the emergence and development of Muslim minorities in both Western and non-Western contexts. Furthermore, I am currently pursuing a PhD in Migration Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK. My research focus on the discrimination and racialisation of some ethnic minorities of Myanmar.

Elena Sánchez-Montijano is Research Professor at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE, Mexico) and Researcher at Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona) and a Master in International Cooperation and Development from the Granada University. Previously, she was Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB and Associate Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) at UPF. Her main areas of interest are migrant integration policies, migration regimes and the transnational relations of foreigners with their countries of origin. Currently, she is co-coordinating the project ‘Towards an Integration Policy for those on the Move in Mexico’, funded by Open Society Foundation; researcher at IT-FLOWS project (IT tools and methods for managing migration flows), funded by the H2020 from the European Commission; and researcher at ‘Atlantic Network 2.0’ project, funded by European Jean Monnet programme. In the past, she was the Scientific Coordinator of the SAHWA project (Researching Arab Mediterranean Youth: Towards a New Social Contract) funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. Also, she was the co-director of the project Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX). She has participated in dozens of academic European projects. She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University, in 2010, at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), Université de Liège, in 2012, and at Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in 2019.