Experts Database

Katrijn MARYNS is assistant professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and
Communication at Ghent University, Belgium. Her linguistic-ethnographic research
examines multilingual discursive practices and linguistic inequality in institutional contexts
of globalisation, with a particular focus on asylum and migration. She has published on
diverse aspects of the Belgian asylum procedure, including the role of narrative
construction, credibility assessment, interpreting and lingua franca interaction. She is the
author of ‘The asylum speaker: Language in the Belgian asylum procedure’ (Routledge
2006), editor (with Philipp Angermeyer, York University) of the book series ‘Translation,
Interpreting and Social Justice in a Globalised World' (Multilingual Matters), and she has
published in various international peer-reviewed journals (Applied Linguistics, Language in
Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language & Communication).

Gianmarco Marzola is a PhD candidate in anthropology based at the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon. His work focuseson politics, religion and migration, with fieldwork carried out in Europe and the Middle East, while working as an NGO professional or volunteering in associations of the local civil society.

Human geographer and cross-disciplinary social researcher with expertise in migrant/transnational families and care, social policy and migration, onward mobilities and the emotional geographies of migration of adult/young migrants and later-generation children and young people. Specialist in person-centred qualitative methods with a particular interest in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic approaches.

A Fulbright Scholar and a DAAD research fellow, Mais has worked with humanitarian organisations and research institutes in North America, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and Germany focusing on forced migration issues. Her area of expertise includes resilience in post conflict, human trafficking, and protracted displacement. Her work has appeared in numerous academic platforms such as the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Reiss Center of New York University School of Law, and Die Friedens-Warte Journal.

Alice Massari is a Marie Curie Global Fellow at the CERC in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Copenhagen working on migration governance visuality. Alice Massari, Ph.D. in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations, and MA in International Relations, works on migration and humanitarian issues since 2007 as researcher, aid worker and consultant. Over the years she has run an INGO responding to the Syrian emergency, worked as EU expert on migration, and served as Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer for the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

I am an expert in childhood and South-South migration who combines an academic and non-profit career: I have worked for more than 10 years with various NGOs, and I was awarded a PhD in Sociology in September 2021, exploring the experiences and identity construction of young West African children living with their families in Morocco.

BA 1974 W. Washington U
MA 1977 Princeton U
PhD 1978 Princeton U
Postdoc 1979 UC Berkeley
Asst Prof U Penn 1980-85
Assoc Prof UPenn 1986-87
Prof U Chicago 1987-94
Prof U Penn 1994-2003
Prof Princeton U 2003-

Born and raised in the Chittagong city of Bangladesh. Studied International Relations at both Bachelor and Master's levels. Currently studying European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations and living at Oldenburg of Germany.