Experts Database

Shahar Shoham is a doctoral candidate in Global and Area Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her ethnographic research focuses on work migration from Thailand to the agriculture sector in Israel, while addressing issues of return migration, migration regimes, migrants' unions and labor rights struggles, visual imaginaries and archives of mobilities and identities of the people on the move and their communities.
Shoham holds a double major B.A in Philosophy and East Asia Studies from Tel Aviv University, and an M.A in Global Studies from Humboldt University. She is a former scholarship holder from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung in Germany. Shoham is currently a visiting research fellow in the research project “TraffLab: Labor Perspectives to Human Trafficking” (ERC) in the law faculty of Tel Aviv University. She also co-initiated a research project focusing on the trajectories of Eritrean refugees who ‘voluntary’ departed Israel to Rwanda and found refuge in Europe. Previously Shoham worked as the manager of the migrant and refuges department in the NGO “Physicians for Human Rights-Israel”.

Human geography researcher focusing on environmental change and transnational migration

I am an Assistant Professor (Limited Duties) in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. I have a comprehensive and global education in Library and Information Science. I am part of the South Asian diaspora, and I have been fortunate to gain educational, teaching, and volunteer experience in Asia, Europe, and North America. Before joining as a Ph.D. student and later as an instructor, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science and Library Management at the University of Dhaka, the largest and oldest public university in Bangladesh and one of the best universities in South Asia. My doctoral study explored the settlement information behavior of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada and the role of information behavior in newcomers’ settlement in Canada. At Western, I am currently teaching research methods and previously taught public library services for newcomers and immigrants. My research focuses on various areas of migration, information behavior, public libraries, open access, and social justice and equity issues in LIS.

I have an interdisciplinary background in Studies of Societies, Cultures, and Religions, and in Political, Legal, and Economic Philosophy. After having worked on land grabbing in Ethiopia and on the moral right of states to exclude human beings from territory and membership, in my doctoral thesis I now focus on attitudes towards minority and majority acculturation in the context of school. I am particularly interested in issues concerning class, race, and gender.

Hans Siebers is an associate professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has a track record of doing research and publishing on discrimination against people with a migration background in the labour market and education. His focus is on disclosing the factors (nationalism, racism...) and mechanisms (boundary making, cultural capital control...) that produce this discrimination in relationship with diversity and inclusion.

Melissa Siegel is a Professor of Migration Studies and Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she manages several migration research projects, coordinates the Migration Studies Specialization as part of the Master’s Program in Public Policy and Human Development and formerly headed the Migration Management Diploma Program. She is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). She currently holds the Chair of the UNU Migration Network and is a Research Associate at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. She is also on the advisory board of the Migration Policy Center, EUI and was formerly on the board of the Hague Process on Refugees and Migration. She has done visiting research fellowships at Harvard University, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the University of Oxford. She has advised, worked on or headed projects for several governments and international organisations. She is also regularly involved in migration-related trainings/capacity building for governments and international organizations as well as teaching at the Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD level. She has also given advice at the United Nations and European Commission on migration issues. Her main research interests lie in the causes and consequences of migration with a strong emphasis on the linkages between migration and development.

I am a senior researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and a guest researcher and lecturer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. I am the chair of the IMISCOE Board of Directors and a member of the IMISCOE executive board. Together with Marco Martiniello, I co-coordinate the IMISCOE Standing Committee Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (DIVCULT). My research focuses on migration and culture in Austria and in international comparison.

Professor Nando Sigona is Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nando is a founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press), and lead editor for Global Migration and Social Change book series at Bristol University Press. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. His research interests include: the migration and citizenship nexus; undocumented migration; naturalisation, denaturalisation and statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; asylum and EU; Brexit and intra-European migration; and child and youth migration.
His work has appeared in a range of international academic journals, including Sociology, Social Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Citizenship Studies and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ (with Crawley, Duvell, Jones, and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014).