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Soumaya Majdoub's doctoral research project is about migration and Malthusian thinking. This research project fits in the broader interdisciplinary research project ‘Cities & Newcomers’ at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). The focus of this project lies on the relationship between perceived population growth and pressure, (economic) development and international migrations on the one hand and the political and public discourse about migration on the other.

She holds a Master’s degree in Media, Democracy & Journalism (VUB) and has a background in Communication Studies (UAntwerpen). In her Master’s thesis, she analyzed the theme of political representation of minorities, the mechanisms behind the process of political recruitment and power elite formation.

She has worked for a number of years as an advisor on urban issues including labor market integration, entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion.

Key research interests include: economic development, migration policy, population growth, urbanization, migration & urban planning

Nassim is known for her work as an expert on return and reintegration, and more broadly on durable solutions to displacement, migrant aspirations, and cross border mobility. Over the last two decades, she has worked, as an academic and a research professional to give voice to under-represented groups and displaced populations, who find themselves caught in the hopes of migration and the despair of displacement and the difficulties of forced returns and deportations.

Nassim is based in the contexts that she studies - having lived between 2007-2014 in Afghanistan and since 2014 in Kenya and leads a team of researchers across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Her geographic and thematic portfolio of work has led her to work with a network of changemakers across the “North-South'' divide.

She is a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand, the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and the Université Houphouet Boigny. Institute for Good Governance, Development, and Foresight (IGDP).

Nassim has published 31 academic and policy articles and led over 200 studies on migration including the more recent publications: South Sudan’s Decades of Displacement: Understanding Return and Questioning Reintegration, and Tipping Points to Turning Points - How Can Programmes and Policies Better Respond to the risks of Child Trafficking and Exploitation on the Central Mediterranean Route?

In 2015, she was nominated by the Norwegian Refugee Council for the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award in recognition of her sterling work on behalf of Afghanistan’s displaced population. Nassim can also be seen giving interviews and participates in panels for media including the Associated Press, Radio France, and TV5 Monde.

Nassim holds a PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris, France, a MA in International Affairs and Development Studies and a BA from Cornell University, USA.

I am interested in migration and development issues especially migrant workers and refugee issues. my current research about unprocedural migrant workers in Indonesia: pattern and causes.

Anouk Malboeuf recently completed her master's in Refugee protection and forced migration studies at the University of London. Her research project focused on Development-induced displacement as a root factor for human trafficking in the Greater Mekong. As an environmental geographer, she is also interested in Climate change and environmental induce displacements, issues of statelessness caused by environmental and climate displacement, resilience, and adaptation.

Bashar Malkawi is Global Professor of Law at University of Arizona, where he teaches in the undergraduate Bachelor of Law program at UA and OUC-UA legal program. Bashar H. Malkawi received his S.J.D from American University, Washington College of Law, and LLM in International Trade Law from University of Arizona. He is well-versed in teaching and providing legal advice with 20+ years' experience in private and public sectors.

Dr. Marie Mallet-Garcia is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at the University of Oxford. She earned her doctorate at the Paris Sorbonne University in 2013. Her dissertation qualitatively and comparatively analyzed Latino political participation in Boston, Los Angeles, and Miami.

Prior to joining COMPAS, Dr. Mallet-Garcia spent four years in residence at Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar and a postdoctoral researcher in the sociology department. She has won funding from various American Institutions such as the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Cornell University, as well as several European fellowships, notably a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND at Freie Unviversität Berlin, a EURIAS fellowship at the Casa de Velazquez, and an MSCA Individual fellowship at the University of Oxford.

Her research interests include immigrants’ integration into the host society through access to and use of social services. She is particularly interested in Latin American immigrants in the United States and the European Union, as well as irregular and other vulnerable migrant groups. Her work has been published in Latino Studies, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, California Journal of Politics and Policy, American Behavioral Scientist, the Swiss Journal of Sociology, New Media & Society, and Social Policy Review among others.

Bishawjit Mallick is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at University of Colorado Boulder, USA and holds a researcher position at Chair of Environmental Development and Risk Management at TU Dresden, Germany. His current research focuses on the historical grounding of non-migration (the reasons why people voluntarily remain in place for generations, how the social, environmental and political regime contributes to staying put).

Cigdem Manap is a Visiting Scholar at Brandenburg University of Technology. Before, she was an assistant professor at Department of Sociology, Suleyman Demirel University and Research Fellow at Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Her research and publications focus on international migration, refugees and asylum seekers, social exclusion, migration policies of Turkey and Europe.