Experts Database

I am Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel and Associate Researcher at the nccr – on the move. I hold a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (Florence 2012). My research focuses on the twin challenge of migration and minority nationalism to the theory and practice of citizenship, in a historical and comparative perspective.

Ivette Arroyo is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Housing Development & Management at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University. She studies collaborative housing as a tool for integration in Sweden. Dr. Arroyo was part of the project "The Housing-Integration Nexus". She co-leads the project “Collaborative Housing in a Pandemic Era (CO-HOPE)”, which focuses on the housing affordability-social integration-health nexus in collaborative housing projects in five European countries.

Maurizio Artero is a researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. He holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the Gran Sasso Science Institute and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa. He works on international migration, especially in urban contexts, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Cities, Citizenship Studies and Voluntas.

As a Development Studies scholar, I consider myself as an interdisciplinary researcher, given that the field amalgamates several disciplines. I am particularly keen on searching for worldviews that can change both the development narrative and migration mantra within the framework of the Global South. The general logic is to develop a discourse that departs from the “dogmatic” views that more or less seem rigidly applicable within the Global North. I hold a bachelor degree in Education from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, an MSc degree in Development Studies from London South Bank University, UK. I am currently in the final phase of my PhD in Development Studies at the University of Lisbon, IGOT, Portugal.

Shamin Asghari is an external PhD candidate at Van Vollenhoven Institute, Law Faculty, Leiden University. She is conducting her research on Afghan migrants' in Iran with focus on the governance of migration, Afghans' legal adaptation and their integration.

PhD Sociology, University of Michigan (2011)
Ramón y Cajal Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (current)

I am a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. My research interests focus on curriculum development and instructional strategies for education in emergencies. I am currently conducting a cross-cultural comparative study on the language development of newly arrived migrant students in monolingual countries, namely in Turkey and Germany. The purpose of my research is to explore how language curriculum is planned and implemented in both countries and reveal what structural factors in pre-, trans-, and post-migration ecologies predict the language proficiency of newly arrived migrant students.