Experts Database

Dr. Marie Sandberg is Associate professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at University of Copenhagen. Trained as an ethnologist her research focuses on everyday life Europeanisation, European borders and migration practices. She studies how borders in/of everyday life are continuously negotiated, overcome, and rebuilt in interactions such as volunteer work in support of refugees coming to Europe. She is the PI of the research-practice collaborative project conducted in collaboration with DRC Danish Refugee Council, Danish Red Cross, and Absalon: Boundary Work - New interfaces between state and civil society: Volunteerism and refugees in a self-support and repatriation context research network, which is funded by the VELUX Foundations 2021-2024. From 2017-2019 she was the PI of Helping Hands: Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens
 funded by the Danish Research Council for Independent Research, and from 2018-2021 Co-PI of the core-group project Diginauts: Migrants’ digital practices in/of the European border regime funded by the Velux Foundations 2018-2020. She has organized several international research conferences and published a number of peer-reviewed articles in high-ranked journals such as Identities and Journal of European Studies, as well as edited volumes. Marie Sandberg was joint editor-in-chief (with Monique Scheer) of the international, A-ranked Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology from 2013-2020. Marie Sandberg is vividly engaged in discussions within international as well as Nordic fields of migration and border studies.

Laure Sandoz currently works as a scientific officer at the Swiss centre of expertise in life course research LIVES. She previously conducted research on transnational entrepreneurship at the University of Neuchâtel, as part of the NCCR On the Move, an interdisciplinary project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which aims to enhance the understanding of contemporary migration patterns. She obtained her PhD from the University of Basel in May 2018 for her project on the mobility of the “highly skilled” towards Switzerland.

İlke Şanlıer Yüksel is an associate professor in the School of Communications and serves as the Director of Migration and Development Research Center (MIGCU) at Çukurova University. She got her BA degree from Sociology Department at Boğaziçi University and a PhD degree from Communication program at Anadolu University. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of migration. She works on the media’s role in diasporic cultures. She is also interested in transnational politics through mediated settings, visual culture and media ethnography. She has a long experience in field research and ethnographic research on migrants. Her current interests also include local cinema history. She is the co-investigator for Topological Atlas: Mapping Contemporary Borders (H2020-ERC) and external expert for Global Asylum Governance and European Union's Role (ASILE) project which is funded under H2020 scheme. She has previously worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Migration Research Center at Koç University and as an assistant professor at Doğuş University in Istanbul. She served as a researcher for “Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People (EURA-NET)” (EU FP7) project for the Turkish team.

Glenda Santana de Andrade is a PhD in Sociology, attached to the Sociological and Political Research Center of Paris (Université Paris 8). Fellow at the Institut Convergences MIGRATIONS, France. Lecturer at the Nouveau Collège d’Études Politiques (NCEP), Université Paris Lumières. Her research focuses on refugees, migration, citizenship, collective action and survival strategies, with a geographical focus on Middle East. In addition, she holds a master's degree in Political Science from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Université Paris 1), a master's degree in International Politics - IPE from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication - Journalism from PUC-SP . She is the author of What kind of citizenship in refugee camps? Palestinians in Lebanon (Quelle citoyenneté dans les camps de réfugiés ? Les Palestiniens au Liban, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2016).

Arianna Santero PhD in Sociology and Political Science, is Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society. Her research expertise lies in the field of gender relations, sociology of the family, migration processes and social inequalities, in particular inequalities in education, migrant families, migration and family policies, work-family balance and parenthood. She is participating in the research projects GEA – Gendering Academia, on gender inequalities in academic career; and InFact – Changing Families and Changing Institutions. She was co-coordinator of the FAMnet Equalsoc project Practices and Policies Around Parenthood: Towards New Models of Fatherhood? (University of Turin, UPF Barcelona e WZB Berlin). She participated as indipendent expert in the Mutual Learning Programme in gender equality of the European Commission. Among her publications are: Migrant Parents in Italy: Gendered Narratives on Work-Family Balance (with M. Naldini, Journal of Family Studies, 2020); Fathers, Childcare and Work. Cultures, Practices and Policies in Comparative Perspective (Eds, with R. Musumeci, Emerald, 2018).

Maria Teresa Santos is a PhD candidate in migration at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon. Her professional background includes nearly 20 years experience managing European Union and Portuguese cooperation projects mostly in Portuguese Speaking African Countries and East-Timor. After taking her MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, she now turns her focus to the European continent and specifically to the relation between migration and development within the European Union space.

In her PhD research she takes as her point of departure the destruction of the imaginary frontier that separates the underdeveloped global south from the developed global north. By exposing the dynamics of the latest stage of capitalism, she shows that the global north is also a space of unequal development not only between countries but also between regions, where the Intra-EU migration flows represent a symptom of this uneven development. This perspective allows her to place the migration and development debate within the uneven geographical development of the European Union.

In particular she pretends to research the contribution of Portuguese migrants in Germany to the development of Portugal and its regions. Using the lenses of critical realism, social space theory and political economy analysis she pretends to reflect on both commonalities and differences between migrants and non-migrant’s actions restructuring space and scale processes under neoliberalism. She takes a multi-scalar, multi-sited perspective as methodological options to pursue research in the uneven global north evidencing the relevance of the migration and development debate in a renewed geography of capitalism, re-centering the importance of space and territory.

PhD candidate in Urban Studies at ISCTE-IUL and Nova University, Lisbon. MA in Sociology (University of Porto) and BA in Journalism (UFMG, Brazil). My research interests lie at the intersection of migration studies and urban studies. My ongoing PhD project explores how differences of race, class and migratory status are related to migrants' trajectories and urban emplacement. I focus on small business owners in Porto and Lisbon neighbourhoods to analyse global inequalities at street level.