Experts Database

Dr. Özge Bilgili is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Utrecht University. She has been awarded as a Thomas J. Alexander fellow at the Education and Skills Department of the OECD and is currently working as an associated researcher for the Strength through Diversity Project. Her expertise is on immigrant integration, social cohesion, transnationalism and education research and policy analysis in relevant areas. She has also worked extensively on migration and development issues, forced migration and return and reintegration research. Please see “Research Projects and Teaching” section for more information on her previous research experience.

Since 2016, Dr. Özge Bilgili is the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) and highly involved in other academic networks. She is the co-coordinator of IMISCOE Standing Committee on Interactions of Migrant Integration and Transnationalism in Europe (IMITE) and an affiliated researcher of United Nations University – Merit. As an assistant professor at Utrecht University, she is also part of European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) and the Inter-university Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS).

Dr. Özge Bilgili is also regularly involved in commissioned research for country governments and international organizations (IOM, UNHCR, MPI, MPG, and SDC), participates in capacity building activities and presents research findings to practitioners, policy makers and academics.

Jenna Blower is a Ph.D. candidate at York University in the Department of Social Anthropology. Jenna has an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies from the Toronto Metropolitan University. Jenna currently works as a Migration Research Officer for the Migration Research Unit at the International Organization for Migration supporting the Word Migration Report series.

I am an early career researcher working in the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre at Monash University, Australia, and the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. My research focuses on the intersections of digital media, belonging, migration and refugee studies, and digital and social inclusion.

Benedicte Brahic is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University where she co-convenes the Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies (MIGS) research group - https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/rcass/groups/migration-….
Her research interests concern the intersections of gender, migration and, bordering. Her recent published work explores the impact of uncertain migratory contexts and citizenship status on migrant families.

Laura Brody is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie fellow participating in the European Joint
Doctorate ‘MOVES’: Migration and Modernity – Historical and Cultural Challenges’
at Charles University and Paul-Valery University. Previously, she received an M.A. in International Migration from the University of Kent and a B.A. in International Comparative Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on issues of forced migration, nationalism, memory, identity and belonging in the Balkans/Eastern Mediterranean.

Elena Bulakh is currently a Russian language lecturer at SOCIUS-ISEG (Lisbon University). She is also a PhD student at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL) of University of Lisbon. Her current research project is devoted to a new wave of the Russian migration to Portugal (1991-2017) with a special focus on networks, transnationalism, and migrants' identity.