Experts Database

Beatriz González-Martín received her PhD. in Migratory Studies, Development and Social Intervention from the University of Almeria (Spain) in 2013. Her doctoral thesis titled 'Rise and Fall of the Spanish construction sector: Its impact in social and labour situations of immigrant and native workers' was awarded the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in the category of Humanities for that year. Her research interests are focused on migrations, generally related to intergroup relations, integration, mobility, housing and homelessness. She has also worked on return and labour market insertion. Her expertise is in the application of qualitative methods. She has been working on the EU H2020 project YMobility: 'Youth Mobility: maximizing opportunities for individuals, labour markets and regions in Europe' (finished 2018). In this project, she coordinated the qualitative fieldwork carried out in Spain. Nowadays she is highly involved in other research projects related to migrant integration and she is opening a new line of research related to the residential and social exclusion of the immigrant population in Almería. She is currently working as Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, History and Humanities at the University of Almeria.

Human rights lawyer, migration reseacrher and PhD candidate in legal studies at the University of Warsaw. Specialising in the field of international and EU law on asylum and migration. Author and co-author of numerous publications and reports; coordinator of several research projects; team member and coordinator of monitoring missions to the borders and detention facilities for migrants. Academic focus: access to territory and asylum procedure.

Michael Gordon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC). His research broadly surrounds irregularized migration and the externalization of European border controls, with a particular focus on the acts of solidarity through the work of civil society Search and Rescue (SAR) operations. These research interests coalesce around the theoretical intersections between sovereignty, solidarity, forced migration and borders at the supposed margins of the Global North. Michael holds a PhD in International Relations from McMaster University and an MA in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo. Currently, he serves as a Co-Editor of Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees.

Hacer Gören is a researcher at MiReKoc and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, Koç University, Turkey. She completed her MA in 2017 on socioecological impacts of renewable energy transition. From 2009-2018, she worked as a conference interpreter, translator, and researcher at public and private institutions. Her research interests include the sociology of climate change, climate change adaptation, climate-migration nexus, sustainability, climate change narratives, climate change governance, disaster studies, and Anthropocene/Capitalocene. She has translated four books, including world classics, and presented at various international conferences on the climate crisis. She has publications on climate change adaptation and climate-migration nexus.

Research Associate and Lecturer at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen.

I am currently completing my Ph.D. in Sociology at Koç University in Istanbul and am affiliated with the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). My research focuses on studying the linkages between migration and urbanization processes, particularly in Istanbul and Beirut. Previously I completed my Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy at the American University of Beirut and received a Fulbright Research Grant to complete research at Utrecht University. Additionally, I have worked as a practitioner and a researcher in the humanitarian and development sector with MENA and European-based organizations.

Shannon Gouppy is a PhD Candidate at CEDEM, University of Liège (Belgium). She is currently working on a thesis on contemporary antiracist mobilizations in francophone Belgium,, under the supervision of Marco Martiniello. Her research interests include the following themes : migrants and minorities’ political participation, processes of minoritization and othering, racialization and anti-racisms, unconventional forms of activism (including through arts and culture), and positionality and knowledge-production.