Experts Database

Swakshadip Sarkar is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Their current research seeks to examine the policy issues that affect transgender asylum seekers in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of their research is to inform the actors involved in policy-making to bring forward the issues faced by transgender asylum seekers from an intersectional perspective.

Tabea Scharrer is Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). She does research in Migration Studies, Urban Anthropology, and Social Anthropology. Her current projects deal with return migration of Somali forced migrants from Europe to East Africa as well as with Somalian migrants in Germany.

Dr. Andrea Schmelz holds a professorship in International Social Work and Global Development at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. After her studies in Political Science, Sociology and Modern History and her Ph.D. at Berlin Humboldt University, she has been working for more than two decades in politics and civil society engagement in the fields of migration, education and social issues as well as in international relations and international development cooperation.

Since 2019: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts. Research Interests: Discourses about integration and migration in different contexts and medial settings.

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Universität Osnabrück. He studied Anthropology, Musicology, Linguistics and Ethnic Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Universität Tübingen. After a two-year research stay at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro he became coordinator of a major European comparative research project at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His major recent publications include “Demographic ‘Megatrends’ and Their Implications” (in: Siirtolaisuus/Migration Journal 3/2018: 26-31); Erfolg nicht vorgesehen. Sozialer Aufstieg in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft – und was ihn so schwer macht (Münster: Waxmann 2018; with C. Lang and A. Pott); “Generation Mix – der Versuch einer Annäherung” (in: M.Hill/E. Yildiz (eds.): Postmigrantische Visionen, Bielefeld: transcript, 129-146); Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2016 (edited with Clea Schmidt); “Social Mobility, Habitus and Identity Formation in the Turkish-German Second Generation” (in: New Diversities, Vol. 16, No. 1/2014: 89-105; with Christine Lang); Super-diversity: A New Perspective on Integration, Amsterdam: VU University Press 2013 (with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? Amsterdam University Press 2012 (edited with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); “Belonging” (in: M. Crul/J. Mollenkopf (eds.): The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States, New York: Russell Sage 2012, 206-32; with Mary Waters, Leo Chavez und Louis de Scipio).

Dr. Irene Schöfberger is a data and research officer at IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin. Prior to joining GMDAC, she has worked in research and policy advice in several countries, including Senegal, Chile, Germany, France and Belgium. She has conducted research on EU-Africa migration and development policies and on transnational livelihoods at the German Development Institute (DIE) and at the University of Freiburg. She has also worked for the European Parliament and the International Council for Science (ISC). She holds a PhD. in Human Geography from the University of Freiburg, as well as an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Bologna.

I am currently a Phd Candidate on Migration and Globalisation and my research project is on return and reintegration between Europe and Nigeria.
I a have also previously worked many years in various UN and other international organisations on crime -related and human rights issues such as human trafficking and smuggling in West and East Africa and Europe .
My academic background is in Criminology and Psychology.

Dr. Susanne U. Schultz is as a Project Manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, in “Making fair migration a reality,” where she focuses on aspects of legal migration, global skills partnerships and migration cooperation with a particular view on (West) African countries. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Bielefeld University on (forced) return migration to Mali. She has published on deportation, masculinities, EU externalization, West African migration, training and youth. From 2009 to 2013, she worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Switzerland, Turkey and Germany.

I am a qualitative researcher. My main area of expertise is migrant political participation. More recently, I started focussing on migrant entrepreneurship and in 2019 I conducted a small study on Greek and Italian businesses operating in the restaurant industry in the North-West of England. I would be interested in projects on political transnationalism, migrant and ethnic entrepreneurship, professional migration and migrants' cultural heritage (with a focus on food).