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Associate professor at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. My educational background is in religious studies and migration research. I have teaching, tutoring and course responsibilities at bachelor's, master and PhD levels. My research interests lie at the intersection of religion and migration, cultural history, minority issues, memory studies, transnational relations, intercultural communication, identity and conflict, narrative research and regional Middle Eastern studies.

Anissa holds a PhD in Political and social sciences from Université libre de Bruxelles (BE). She is currently an F.R.S-FNRS postdoctoral researcher (REPI, ULB) and an Affiliated Research Fellow at Oxford Department of International Development (University of Oxford). She conducts qualitative research on migrations, borders, and voluntary returns in North and West Africa (Morocco, Mali, Niger) and on local intermediation in international fields (development, humanitarian, military, academia) (Mali, DRC).

After 10 years working in humanitarian and development field, on refugee protection, gender-based violence prevention and response in conflict and displacement settings and gender mainstreaming, I have started PhD research at the crossroad between the fields of forced migration studies, gender studies and Middle-Eastern Studies. The subject of my PhD is the impact of conflict and displacement on gender relations throughout the migration route (using the example of post-2011 Syrian migrations)

Willem Maas, Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Public & International Affairs, and Socio-Legal Studies at York University, chairs Glendon Political Science, previously chaired Glendon Faculty Council for four years, and is also active in professional service, including currently serving on the executive of IPSA's Migration and Citizenship RC, vice-chair of ISA's ENMISA section, and remaining active in APSA's Migration and Citizenship section, which he co-founded. Professor Maas has held appointments at Yale, NYU, Radboud, Leiden, EUI, and elsewhere, heads the Canadian part of the Whole-COMM project, and also co-edits the Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship book series. He writes on EU and multilevel citizenship, migration, borders, free movement, and politics focusing on Europe and North America.

Migration Studies

I work as an assistant professor at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic. I am interested in the interplay between migration, cities and development. My current research projects revolve around the themes of highly skilled migration, migration governance, and return migration.

As a night ethnographer and migration scholar, for the past decade Julius-Cezar Macarie (or MacQuarie) has reached out to migrant nightshift workers working around the clock in European cities, because he is concerned with their invisibility from public debates, political agendas, and scholarly fields.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nightwork, nighttime economy, decent work agenda, transnational migration, social justice policies, multi-sited and multi-modal nocturnal ethnography, producing films and podcasts applied to research and teaching on migration and labour dynamics.

In July 2022, I have completed a project on Inequalities in Siliconised Romanian Cities, as 'Stefan Odobleja' Post-doctoral fellow, New Europe College (NEC) 2021 Award, Bucharest, Romania, while I was also affiliated with the Inequalities Workgroup, Democracy Institute, Central European University, Hungary. Since September 2022, I have joined the Institute for Social Science for the 21st century, University College Cork, Ireland, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to research the production of marginalisation of women migrant nightworkers in Ireland. I will concentrate on women because they are further invisibilised in the masculinised environments of evening and nightwork and are more likely to be abused at work due to behaviours linked to patriarchy.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association | Member
European Association for Social Anthropologists | Member
International Night Studies Network | Night Working Group Leader
INTEGRIM (Integration of Migrants and International Migration) | Research Affiliate Member
Nightworkshop | Founder and campaigner of the Nightworker Charter

Magdalena is a Professor in Anthropology (UBA), with a master's degree in Latin American Literature (UNTEF), a diploma as Specialist in Digital Strategy (SAWI) currently pursuing a CAS in Civilian Peacebuilding Essentials (University of Basel & Swisspeace).
Magdalena has worked on human rights and minority rights, migrations, diasporas, comparative literature and literature and exile, and peacebuilding.
She has worked for the international cooperation sector in Communications and also in project management, within the UN System (UNFPA, UN-Migration/IOM), for a European project on Diasporas, and with grassroots organisations (AICRA, Mesemrom). She has also worked as a consultant in Switzerland and Latin America.
Her areas of expertise are institutional communications, communications for the humanitarian, digital strategy, storytelling, audiovisual creation, project management, and methodologies / research.