Experts Database

I am a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, whose interests have taken me to fieldworks in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo and Nigeria. While I have researched a variety of issues, ranging from selection criteria in refugee resettlement to border control at airports and human trafficking, my core competence lies in the field of return migration and return policies.

In my doctoral research I examined return migration to Iraqi Kurdistan, which also triggered a longstanding interest in the migration-corruption nexus. I have also taken part in a string of evaluations of assisted return from Norway to Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kosovo.

Building on those experiences, I'm now coordinating the project Deporting Foreigners: Contested Norms in International Practice (NORMS, 2021-2024). NORMS cmpoaratively explores the norm dynamics of deportation from both host and origin state perspectives, in Norway, Sweden, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Ethiopia, and moroever within the EU's border agency, Frontex.

Previously, I have been affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in the Study of Civil War (CSCW) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), as well as the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, where I taught 'migration control'. I have also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex and at the University of Oxford.

Agnese Pacciardi is a PhD canddiate at the University of Lund, Department of Political Science.
She investigates European external migration management policies in North and West Africa drawing on migration studies, border studies and security studies.

Graduate programme of International Relations
Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair/NEPDA
State University of Paraiba (www.uepb.edu.br)
--
Full Research Collaborator
Graduate Programme of Comparative Studies on the Americas
University of Brasilia
--
Senior Research Associate
Refugee Law Initiative
University of London

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, the Institute of International Studies of the Collegium of Socio-Economics of SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Head of the Migration Policies Research Unit at the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) of the University of Warsaw. She received her PhD in economics in 2013. She is on the Board of the Polish European Community Studies Association (PECSA) and the Research Committee RC46 ‘Migration and Citizenship’ of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). She supports the European Commission Representation in Poland as an EU expert member of the Team Europe network. She is also a member of the International Steering Committee of the Metropolis Project, focused on international migration and migration policies. She has considerable experience as both a team leader and member in implementing cross-sector and multi-stakeholder projects co-funded by the National Science Centre, National Bank of Poland, Capital City of Warsaw, various ministries, EU Programmes (Horizon 2020, Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus+, Creative Europe), and others. Currently has been involved in two projects within Horizon 2020 dedicated to migration issues (RESPOND and Welcoming Spaces) and in many Jean Monnet actions (support to associations, centre of excellence, networks, projects etc.) focused on different aspects of EU studies. She coordinates at SGH the AMENET project – "The European Union, Mediterranean and Africa Integration in the Global Age" (2018-2021) of Erasmus+ Programme (Jean Monnet Networks, consortium leader: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Polish partner: SGH Warsaw School of Economics). She was a coordinator of the EUMIGRO project – “Jean Monnet Module on the European Union and the Contemporary International Migration – an Interdisciplinary Approach” (2016–2019) implemented at SGH Warsaw School of Economics and the EUSHARE project – “Connecting the European Union of Shared Aims, Freedoms, Values and Responsibilities” (2016–2020) conducted by the Polish European Community Studies Association (PECSA). She has authored or co-authored book chapters, journal articles, working papers, research reports, and other texts in Polish, English or French covering international relations and economics, migration studies and EU studies, which has given her considerable experience and expertise to co-edit books and special issues of journals highly recognized by international publishers (including Wiley, Routledge, and Emerald). She has for many years now been a reviewer of various interdisciplinary scientific journals (e.g., International Migration, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Journal of European Integration, Migration Studies—Review of Polish Diaspora, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, The Review of European Affairs, Polish Political Science Yearbook, Yearbook of the Institute of East-Central Europe, etc.) and project proposals (e.g., under Horizon 2020). Marta’s main research interests include EU studies and migration and refugee studies. E-mail: marta.pachocka@gmail.com

Raffaella Pagogna is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research primarily centers around migration infrastructures, governance, and decision-making processes. With a keen interest in comprehending the spatial and social implications of migration, she has conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia and Thailand.

Giacomo Palermo is a photojournalist and unconventional visual communicator working on sociological and humanitarian research in the Mediterranean area. He has collaborated as a photographer with Getty Images Inc., Touring Club Italia, Majority World CIC - Global - Photo Agency, The MEGA Agency, GEDI S.p.a Gruppo Editoriale, La Repubblica, National Geographic Italia, La Sicilia, La Discussione, Aleteia.org, America Oggi, La Voce di New York and other international magazines. He is a volunteer missionary at the "Speranza e Carità" O.n.l.u.s. mission in Palermo founded by his lay brother Biagio Conte. Winner in 2015 of the Special Prize of the "Federazione Italiana Associazioni Fotografiche" dedicated to the most influential Italian humanitarian photographer Tina Modotti. In 2021 his project entitled "TerrA MAGNUM (Mediterraneo)" was included in "The Magnum Connect Program" of the most important and prestigious photo agency in the world, Magnum Photos. He has exhibited in photography group shows such as the "International Centre of Photography" in Palermo founded by Letizia Battaglia.