Base de données d’experts

Dr. Christian Hunkler studied social sciences and marketing in Mannheim, Utrecht, and Bloomington. He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from Mannheim University with a thesis on ethnic inequality in access to dual vocational education. After his dissertation he worked for the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Konstanz University, and DeZIM-Institute. Since October 2019 he is senior researcher in the units "Labor Market, Migration, and Integration" and "Education and Integration" at BIM.

His current research focuses on integration, especially the integration of refugees in Germany, ethnic and gender inequality on the labor market and the use of process generated (“Big Data”) for social scientific research, e.g., the relationship of age and productivity.

Lucy is interested in research at the intersection of education and migration, and has a particular passion for youth-centred and arts-based methods. Her ESRC-funded doctoral project at the University of Oxford investigates young refugees' engagement with post-15 education in Greece.

Prior to joining Oxford, she spent several years teaching, researching and advising for UNESCO, NGOs, universities and public schools in various contexts.

Passionate about inclusive market integration of vulnerable groups. I work with public and private entities promoting inclusive and market-responsive employment initiatives. I am interested in finding the sweet spots where migrants and refugees (among other vulnerable groups) and the market become productive and prosperous, together.

My work focuses on finding ways of facilitating productive entrepreneurship and inclusive labour market integration across the SME economy and wider private sector development initiatives in emerging markets.

Senior Lecturer in Health & Social Policy, University of Glasgow. Alistair's research interests lie at the intersection of migration and ageing, and span topics such as health and care, inter-generational relations, end-of-life issues, religiosity, return and circular migration. His books include 'Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return' and 'Handbook of Migration and Ageing' (co-edited with Sandra Torres). His PhD (2012) was awarded IMISCOE's Maria Baganha Prize.

Ayesha Hussain is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Research Associate at Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies at University of Bonn. Her research project is entitled "Asymmetrical dependencies among Pakistani migrants in Italy's informal labour sector: The role of Social Capital". She analyses the dependencies within the social networks, at the micro and meso level structures of migration including families, ethnic networks and diasporas focusing on the mobilisation of social capital of networks particularly within the informal labour sector in Italy. 

Derek Hutcheson is Professor in Political Science and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly relating to the voting rights of mobile EU citizens and their participation in local and European Parliament elections. He has been active in several funded projects on the subject of mobile EU citizens, which have partly informed new directives on the cross-border voting rights for mobile EU citizens. Outside of the sphere of migration, he has also published extensively on electoral politics more broadly, especially in the post-Soviet region.