Experts Database

since 08/2022 Head of Master Social Work, location Lucerne; Lecturer and project management

since 09/2013 Lecturer UZH, BFH, FHNW, ZHAW, University of Fribourg, University Halle Wittenberg

08/2018-08/2022 Research assistant (post-doc) in the research project "Unaccompanied Minor Refugees in Institutional Placement: Opportunities and Challenges " (SNF-NFP 76), University of Zurich, Institute of Educational Science.

2019-2020 Project leader of the Citizen Science project "Social participation opportunities of refugee children and adolescents in Switzerland", University of Zurich, Institute of Educational Science (funded by the Participatory Science Academy of the UZH/ETH)

2012-2018 Research assistant, among others in the project "Participation of children and adolescents in Switzerland", University of Zurich, Institute of Educational Science

2012-2018 Research assistant in the project "Outreach social work in the context of sex work: an ethnographic study" (dissertation project)

Until 2018 various practical activities in the context of social education/social work: association of single mothers and fathers in Münster (Westphalia); Grupo Ruas e Praças in Recife, Brazil.

(research) projects

2018-2022 "Unaccompanied Minor Refugees in Institutional Placement: Opportunities and Challenges " (SNF-NFP 76), University of Zurich, Institute of Educational Science (together with Prof. Dr. Peter Rieker, Ellen Höhne).

2019-2020 Citizen Science Project "Social Participation Opportunities of Refugee Children and Adolescents in Switzerland", University of Zurich, Institute of Educational Science (funded by the Participatory Science Academy of UZH/ETH) (together with Fränzi Bus,er Selin Kilic).

2012-2018 "Outreach social work in the context of sex work: challenges for the professional action of social workers*", PhD research project.

2012-2016 Unicef Study "Participation of Children and Adolescents in Switzerland", University of Zurich, Institute of Educational Science (together with Prof. Dr. Peter Rieker, Dr. Anna Schnitzer)

Sabah Mofidi, from Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), is a PhD graduate in Political Science and a scholar in Kurdish studies. Currently he is working on a project on the change in political identity among Kurdish immigrants in western Europe, holding a postdoctoral scholarship funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

Mohamed Munas is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Management Research of the Nijmegen School of Management, Department of Geography and Planning, Radboud University, the Netherlands. His PhD dissertation titled “Reconnections”: Complexities of diaspora engagement in Sri Lanka focuses on understanding the collective engagement of diaspora in post-war recovery. This multisited research brings the experiences and perspectives of the individuals and organisational representatives together from Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and Australia. Munas's research critically looks at diaspora-led development interactions and their outcomes on post-war societies using postdevelopment lens. Further, this research looks at how diasporic identities are mobilised to form collectives and organisations that are used as vehicles to channel developmental assistance.

Peshawa Mohammed holds a Master's degree in English Language Teaching from Near East University. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Educational Research at the University of Debrecen. He has been teaching EFL and cultural studies for almost 10 years in different institutes and universities. His research interests are refugee education, parental involvement and language teaching. He has published articles in journals and presented in different international conferences.

Lea Molina Caminero is a social geographer (M.A. University of Osnabrück) and completed her thesis on lifestyle-oriented youth mobilities to Lisbon in 2020 at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon. Her research interests cover privileged mobility and its impact on urban and rural areas. Here she is particularly interested in inequalities in labour and mobility regimes and how these are reflected socio-spatially.

Political Scientist, PhD in International Relations and Political Science. Associate Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Researcher at the University Institute for Migration Studies (IUEM) of Comillas University

I am an anthropologist specialising in the intersection between migration, aid and security in mainland Southeast Asia. Initially trained in social anthropology at University of Oslo and Macquarie University in Australia, I worked for the United Nations Development Programme in the Mekong region before returning to the social sciences. After completing my PhD and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology at Macquarie University, I was in 2012 appointed lecturer in Anthropology (Development Studies) at the Australian National University. I am the current co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) and have served in several leadership roles, including the Discipline Head of Anthropology and Research Convenor within the School or Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University.

I have two decades research and programme experience on human trafficking, development and mobility in the Mekong region. In my PhD fieldwork I carried out research on migration and anti-trafficking interventions along the Lao-Thai border. My current research examines how “safe migration” has become an important modality of migration governance in the Mekong region. My overarching research agenda advances the study of the securitisation of aid and mobility in a comparative perspective. Its theoretical contribution is to illuminate how relations and structures of power permeate through development and humanitarian practices as well as how such efforts are mobilised, enacted, and legitimated. I extend my academic research through collaborations with UN agencies and other external partners through consultancies, commissioned research, and other forms of engagements.

I am the author of Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia and The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong (University of Hawaii Press).

Dr. Judith Möllers is an agricultural economist and has been a senior scientist at IAMO since 2006. She is the deputy head of Department Agricultural Policy. Her areas of expertise and professional interest include migration and return migration, financial and social remittances, migration impacts in the origin areas, migration and development links, rural depopulation, rural poverty and rural livelihoods. The geographical focus of her research is mainly on Southeast Europe.

My research revolves around media and their role in societal changes, particularly in the context of conflict and repression with a focus on the disenfranchised and actors who challenge the status quo. I am specialised in the Middle East and have conducted ethnographic fieldworks in Egypt, Syria and the Öresund Region.