Experts Database

Matteo Bassoli is Assistant Professor at the University of Padua. He has written extensively on civic and political engagement: three authored book in Italian, one edited volume on grass-root antidiscrimantion policies in English and two on local governance and sharing economy in Italy. He has also published on different aspects of urban governance, social inclusion and local policy making in the following journals: Acta Politica, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, IPSR/RISP Italian Political Science Review, IJURRnternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Governance, Journal of Social Policy, Partecipazione e Conflitto, Social Movement Studies, Social Policy & Administration, Voluntas. He has been working on precarity, gambling, migration, Roma issues and social exclusion in different EU funded projects.

University Researcher

University Researcher, Swedish School of Social Science Subunit
CEREN (The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism)

Tevfik Bayram is a Public Health PhD student at the University of Montreal. He completed his Medical education and Public Health Specialization at the Marmara University (Istanbul-Turkey) in 2012, 2019 respectively. He completed his Master of Public Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 2016 (fully-funded by Pears Foundation). His main areas of research are health inequities, oppression, and the health of vulnerable populations. His master's thesis was on health inequities between various ethnic/religious populations in Jerusalem; and Specialization thesis on migrant women’s access to healthcare in Switzerland. He recently led a research project exploring oppression and language-related barriers Kurds are confronting in accessing healthcare in Turkey. In his doctoral thesis he focuses on empowerment of unaccompanied refugee-claimant children in Quebec, Canada.

Raffaele Bazurli is a researcher and teaching associate at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He has been recently awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by UK Research and Innovation, for the project "Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities" (SPIMEC). His research focuses on urban governance and politics, immigrant welfare and asylum, and social movements. More information: https://raffaelebazurli.com/

Jean Beaman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Editor of H-Net Black Europe, an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.

I hold a PhD in Sociology from the Paris-Sorbonne University. My interest in expatriation stems from my experience as educator in France and abroad and inquiries among teachers from France in Casablanca (Morocco) and London (UK) by in ethnographic and qualitative methods. Author several articles and book chapters, I am an active member of international research networks in Sociology: “Comparative Sociology” and “Sociology of Migration” at the International Sociological Association at the conference at Tokyo (2014) and Toronto (2018), “Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology” and “Sociology of migration” at the European Sociological Association at the congress in Torino and Bilbao (2013), Praha (2015), Athens (2017), Helsinki (2018) and Manchester (2019). I also have participated to the IMISCOE conference in Malmö (2019) and I am a member of the Lifestyle Migration Hub.
I have led research with homeless people and the use of alcohol in Paris and guided social workers with students in training progress. I have taught Sociology of migrations at Sciences Po Paris and I am now Lecturer in Social Work at CEMEA-Aubervilliers and Paris-Nanterre University.

I am a doctoral researcher at University of Bonn working on: "pathways, mobilities and climate change: journeys of labour migrants from the Sunderbans Delta in India." I am particularly interested in ethnographic stories about climate migration; delving to research more on linkages between climate governance/policies in Global South and climate-induced migration. After studying political science in Calcutta, I completed my postgraduate studies in journalism in Chennai, India. As a correspondent and editor at the Time of India, I edited content, and managed media content and everyday news story packages. I simultaneously completed my Master's degree in International Relations. I then worked as a junior researcher in Bengaluru where I teamed on an ethnographic study on borderlands and marginalised communities in the Indo-China border. In addition, I also developed a keen interest in studying the sociological impacts of climate change while working on a project investigating the governance of water security in India. During this time, I have been a network builder for the International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI) supported by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-India office and remained an editor and writer for several in-house publications of the research institute.