Experts Database

Jeconiah Dreisbach is a PhD candidate in Humanities and Communication at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, specializing in critical sociolinguistics. He is part of the interdisciplinary research group Language, Culture and Identity in the Global Age (IdentiCat) and does research on the politics of multilingualism, migration, and intercultural contact.

Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin is a senior analyst at l'Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and associate professor (docent) at Uppsala University, Sweden. She investigates social inequality in transnational contexts such as migration, internationalisation, and globalisation. She holds a PhD in sociology and a Masters in social sciences from the EHESS in Paris. She is the author of a book in French, Le privilège d’une éducation transnationale: sociologie historique du baccalauréat international (2022) and four other articles available in English language journals: International Studies in Sociology of Education (2021), Journal of Curriculum Studies (2018), UNESCO’s Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education (2015), and Paedagogica Historica (2014).

Atakan DURMAZ is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finances at Samsun University in Turkey. He holds a PhD from the Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Economics, has conducted research at Duisburg-Essen University’s Stiftung Zentrum Für Türkeistudien Und Integrationsforschung. His main academic interests include; Turkish diaspora, migration economics, low-skilled and high-skilled Migrant labours, return migration.

Durodola, Tosin Samuel is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, and a recipient of the prestigious Graduate School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Scholarship. Tosin holds M.A in African Studies (Diaspora and Transnational Studies) with the highest Distinction from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His Master’s dissertation emerged as one of the two winners of the global Border Criminologies Thesis Prize, organised by Routledge and University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology. Tosin has done extensive collection, analysis, and dissemination of qualitative data on forced migration, diaspora, and refugee camps. He is a Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Nigeria and a Research Associate at the Reformers' Initiative for Development in Africa. He is a member of the Border Criminologies Network based at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. He is contributing a chapter to a forthcoming edited volume: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change - Major Reference Work (2023).

Mimoza Dushi serves as a Professor specializing in Demography and Migration courses at the University of Prishtina in Pristina, Kosovo. Her research is centered on migration, encompassing aspects such as the labor market, the integration of migrants into host societies, and the formation of identity.

My research explores how cultural producers collaborate with Indigenous, migrant, and multi-ethnic communities to produce transmedia and transcultural counter-narratives of belonging and identity. I recently collaborated on the production of Youth in the City, a digital storytelling experience that displays how migrant youths live, interact and move across the Italian city of Prato. My first monograph Legacies of Indigenous Resistance was published by Peter Lang Oxford in 2019 as part of the ‘Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ series.

PhD Candidate at the CEU Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (Public Policy Track). Her research focuses on migrants’ political activism, critical migration governance, and contentious politics. She is currently a chair of the CEU Migration Research Group. Before her PhD studies, she worked as a consultant at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and for the SIRIUS project (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) at Charles University in Prague.

Cansu Ekmekcioglu is a doctoral candidate at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Zouhair El-Hairan attained a Bachelor's Degree in Media and Communication from Pompeu Fabra University. He also obtained a Master's Degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Barcelona and a Master's Degree in 'Politics/Current Democracies: Nationalism & Multiculturalism' at Pompeu Fabra University.
He is a PhD Candidate of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University, and a Diaspora Facilitator/Technical Assistant at the Catalan Fund for Development Cooperation.

Gabriella Elgenius is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. She joined the Department of Sociology and Work Science in 2014. Gabriella is Associate Member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the RSA. Gabriella received her doctorate from the London School of Economics as a Marie Curie Fellow in 2005, and have held a British Academy post-doc fellowship at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College (2007-2011). She was a lecturer at the University of London and the University of Oxford 2000-2014. Gabriella's research interests include civil society's role for integration and inclusion in socioeconomically and diverse neighborhoods, labor market integration, nationalism and the radical right. Her projects combine theoretical and empirical comparative designs using mixed-methods i.e. qualitative and quantitative methodologies across countries and multi-cited locations.
She is the PI for the following externally funded projects:

RETHINKING INTEGRATION: https://www.vr.se/english/mandates/funding-and-promoting-research/resea…

LOCALiTIES: Civil Society and Employability in Diverse Areas in Sweden and the UK Project: https://localitiesproject.home.blog/project/
Homepage and related projects: https://www.gu.se/omuniversitetet/personal?userId=xelgga&departmentId=0…

EMPOWERING CITIES OF MIGRATION: https://www.gu.se/en/research/empowering-cities-of-migration-new-method…