Experts Database

Jofelle P. Tesorio is a migration researcher within the International Development Studies (IDS) group, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning (SGPL), Utrecht University. She is part of the Horizon 2020 Welcoming Spaces project at UU. Also trained as a journalist, she has been investigating media representations of different groups of migrants, and emplacement and networks of Ukrainian migrants within key European receiving countries. She has worked on other research projects on irregular migrants, labour migrants, South-South migration, and sustainable development. She is also the coordinator of Shared Value Foundation (SVF), an Utrecht University-hosted research NGO that focuses on the social impact of development projects.

Davide Testa is a PhD student at FAME Laboratory (www.famelab.gr/the-lab/). He studies the impacts of climate change on human health and migration patterns with the aim to increase the adaptive capacity and climate resilience of low-income populations, contributing to improved climate adaptation policy.

Phillip Thebe is a PhD fellow in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a development studies researcher specializing in globalization and migration. He has published a number of academic articles, presented in several conferences, and has wide research experience in Africa, Europe and Asia. His present research explores the Aspirations of Zimbabweans and other Sub-Saharan Africans in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Dr. Sotiris Themistokleous is the Director of Strategic Development of the Center for Social Innovation (CSI). He holds a BA in International Relations and History from the American College of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Global Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a PhD in Education from the University of Nicosia. He has been involved in more than 80 projects as a researcher and a project manager. He was awarded and managed projects from a wide range of funding agencies such as the EuropeAid, EU Solidarity Funds, Rights-Equality-Citizenship, EU Lifelong Learning Programs, EU Home Affairs, ERASMUS+, Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Fundamental Rights Association and other additional public and private agencies. He is managing research and projects on social innovation, social justice and empowerment, vocational training, lifelong learning, educational policy reform and civic participation. He has published articles and book chapters and presented a series of papers at international conferences on Social Innovation and Education, Sustainable Development, Democratization, Gender, Migration, Social and Economic Integration, and Civil Society. Also, he drafted a number of technical and evaluation reports for professional and organizational development for various institutions at national and international level.

Masters degree in Anthropology from University of Montreal, currently working in the immigration community sector.

Claire R. Thomas is an attorney, advocate, and educator interested in migration, statelessness, and human rights. She graduated from the University of Chicago and also studied at the Université de Paris X, Nanterre. She holds a graduate degree from NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and a law degree from New York Law School.

She directs the Asylum Clinic at New York Law School, in which she teaches law students how to represent immigrants seeking asylum and other humanitarian immigration protections in the United States. As an Assistant Professor at NYLS, she also teaches the introductory immigration law course. Claire also teaches Refugee and Asylum Law at The New School in New York City.

Claire was a Fulbright Garcia-Robles U.S. Scholar in Law to México for the 2021-2022 academic year and was a Visiting Professor at ITESO in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Claire researches statelessness, human rights protections and durable solutions for people in migration in México, focusing on persons who are not from the Americas.

Previously, Claire was a contract attorney with CUNY Citizenship Now!, where she assisted immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship. She served as a consultant with The Door's Legal Services Center, where she supervised staff members representing immigrant youth in removal proceedings. She worked was an attorney with the Safe Passage Project, in which she mentored pro bono attorneys representing immigrant children; supervised law students, fellows, and staff; coordinated a monthly Juvenile Docket at the New York Immigration Court; planned, organized and conducted trainings at the state and national level; and engaged in advocacy efforts with other non-profit organizations as well as city, state and federal agencies. From when she was a 1L law student until 2014, Claire advocated for the rights of African, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern immigrants at African Services Committee, a Harlem-based non-profit assisting persons living with HIV/AIDS. She represented survivors of gender-based violence, including minors, in immigration proceedings and directed “Projet Aimée,” a women’s empowerment group for survivors of gender-based violence.

Claire is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Law and Society Association. Her writings have appeared in various law journals and other publications.

She is admitted to practice in NY and IL. She speaks French and Spanish.

Eloise Thompson is a doctoral fellow with the nccr - on the move (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and associated with the Institute for Geography, University of Neuchâtel.

Malin Thor Tureby gained her PhD at Linnaeus University in 2005 (History). During the years 2005-2014 she worked as a senior lecture in history and oral history at Malmo university, where she became Docent in 2013 (History) and was promoted Associated Professor (History/Oral History) the same year. Since 2014 Thor Tureby works at Linköping university where she was appointed as Associated Professor (History) in 2015. She is one of the co-founders of Oral History in Sweden (OHIS) and co-chair of the European Social Science Conference (ESSHC) Oral history and life stories network.
Thor Tureby is currently the PI and PL of the research projects Narratives as cultural heritage. Power and resistance in collections of narratives from and about immigrants at the archive of Nordic Museum 1970–2015 and Jewish and Woman. Historical and Intersectional perspectives on Jewish Women’s lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first century. Both projects are funded by the Swedish Research Council.
She is also the PI and the PL for the research project Oral history as digital heritage in the age of migration. A project that is part the international research consortium and research project DigiCONFLICT, funded by JPICH. The Swedish research team is researching the involvement of cultural heritage institutions and other actors, while collecting, curating and using oral histories during and about the refugee reception of 2015. The Swedish study is funded by The Swedish National Heritage Board.

Ramesh Timsina, an M. A. in English Literature from Tribhuvan University, has been pursuing other Master’s in Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He completed his first Master’s in English in 2015 and his Bachelor’s in Religion and Society from MF Scientific College, Norway, in 2022. He has worked as an English teacher for seven years, including two years of experience as a high school teacher in a public school in Nepal. He is keenly interested in literature, literary theories, cultural studies, human rights issues, migration, and sociology. He has contributed to both creative and critical writing in newspapers and journals. He has some poems, opinion articles, and journal articles published to his credit.