Experts Database

Ildikó Zakariás is a research fellow at the Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest. Her main research areas are civil society and humanitarianism, migration, ethnicity and nationalism, and a related focus on affective governance. Her dissertation has been published as a monograph (in Hungarian) titled Philanthropic Nation – Solidarity and Power in support of Ethnic Hungarian Minorities (Budapest, Kalligram, 2018). Her recently published articles appeared in the journals Sociology, International Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations and Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics. Her ongoing research focuses on refugee and migrant services in Vienna, and on the position and perspectives of migrant workers in these organisations.

Carmen Zamorano Llena, PhD, is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is also the Literary Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Irish Studies, and Series Co-editor of Peter Lang’s Cultural Identity Studies series. She has published widely on contemporary Irish and British fiction and poetry. Her most recent publication is Fictions of Migration in Britain and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and she is also co-editor of several collections of essays, including Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland (Peter Lang, 2011), and Transculturality and Literature: Redefinitions of Identity in Contemporary Literature (Rodopi, 2013). In 2010 she was awarded a three-year research grant (2011-2013) by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to develop her research project entitled “Globalisation, Migration and Communal Narratives of Belonging: Changing National Narratives in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction.” Over the last decade her research has mainly focused on literature and globalization and literatures of migration in Britain and Ireland, and she has published extensively in these fields of specialization in peer-reviewed publications. She is a participant researcher in the funded NOS-HS workshop series “Temporalities and Subjectivities of Crossing: Contemporary Public Migration Narratives in Europe” (2019-2020). She is also the leader of a research group on literatures of migration in Europe at Dalarna University, whose most recent focus is on media and literary constructs of Muslim identity in Europe, past and present.

Franzisca Zanker is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, Germany, where she heads the research cluster on “Patterns of (Forced) Migration.” Prior to that she worked at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies Institute in Hamburg and has a PhD in political science from the University of Tübingen. Her research interests include migration and refugee governance, peacebuilding and civil society. She is currently heading a research project on the political stakes of refugee governance in Africa, funded by German Foundation for Peace Research (2019-2021). Together with Jesper Bjarnesen she is the co-founder of the AEGIS Collaborative Research Group on ‘African Migration, Mobility and Displacement’ (AMMODI).

Assistant Professor of Public Law, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez (Morocco).

Dr. Gisela P. Zapata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography and researcher at the Centre for Regional Development and Planning (CEDEPLAR) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She is a fellow of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and a member of the Research Group "Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas" [CAMINAR]. Her research focuses on international migration and displacement, migration policies, remittances, and the migration-development and humanitarian-development nexus in Latin America.

PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography of the University of Hamburg, Germany. His lines of research focus on Colombian international migration, transnational migration, and transnational urban spaces.

Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-Barcelona). His main lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship, and immigration. He conducts theoretical and empirical research on migration and in the Mediterranean area. He is the Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration), and of the Master’s Program in Migration Studies at UPF . He is a member of the Board of Directors of the largest research network on Immigration in Europe IMISCOE and Chair the External Affairs Committee. Current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration) and EUMedMi Jean Monnet Network “Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies”.Additionally, he is a member of editorial boards of several academic journals and an occasional contributor to media and policy debates.

For more information about publications: https://www.upf.edu/web/ricard-zapata/