Experts Database

Lucy is a Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy & Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. She is based within the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity team working on a research and knowledge exchange project focussed on understanding migrant destitution across the UK. Her research interests include migration, poverty, inequality, sociology of childhood, children’s rights, participatory methodologies and co-production.

Philosopher and Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Antioquia, with Master's studies in Government and Public Policy at the EAFIT University. Topics of interest: Latin American migration (Venezuela, Haiti, Northern Triangle); studies on migratory securitization, transformation of transit spaces, vertical borders and diversification of mobility, as well as critical studies of migrations (biopolitics and necropolitics), feminization of migrations and the philosophical approach to the international migratory phenomenon.

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge is a Social Psychologist at the University of the West of England (UWE) who studies migration. She chairs the UWE Global Migration Network and convenes the annual Asylum Seeker and Refugee Wellbeing Conference at UWE. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked in International Development, and has conducted research in more than 25 countries. She has lived in Canada, Kenya, France, UK and Bangladesh.

Antonina Levatino is a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology of the UAB, holding a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Her research focuses on the link between the internationalization of higher education, skilled migration and student mobility, on accountability and autonomy reforms in education, as well as on social stratification.

Chris Levesque joined Kenyon’s Department of Sociology in July 2023. His research studies migration, demography and the far-reaching consequences of U.S. immigration law. Specifically, he focuses on the legal process in newer immigrant destinations. He uses mixed methods to study the intersection between the criminal and immigration law — also referred to as “crimmigration” — examining the impacts of social stratification, detention, and legal access in the U.S. immigration court system. He is also interested in internal migration patterns in the metro and non-metro Midwest.

Prior to joining Kenyon, Chris was an affiliate with the University of Minnesota Law School’s Binger Center for New Americans and a predoctoral trainee in population studies at the Minnesota Population Center. He has also consulted and worked with organizations such as the Advocates for Human Rights and Migration Policy Institute.

Nathan Levy is a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, studying research-policy dialogues on migration and migration-related diversity.

Aleksandra Lewicki is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, a Member of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS).

Her work investigates structural inequalities in post-colonial Europe. Her main research areas are: institutional dynamics of racism & political mobilisation and agency.