Experts Database

Stephanie holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies and International Relations (2019) and a Master’s degree in political and social sciences (2009). She has over 10 years of experience in academic, research, advocacy and consulting activities in international migration, refugee, forced migration, diasporas, migration governance (regional, national, local), migrants and refugee rights and migration policies (regulation, integration, labor, education). She has experience in public policy design and institutional capacity-building. She is an advocate for the rights of forced displaced persons, engaging with senior government officials, members of the Colombian Congress, civil society organizations, international development organizations and academia to ensure the protection of their rights.

Craig Loschmann is a research fellow at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT. His research over the years has focused primarily on the causes and consequences of forced migration in the contexts of Afghanistan and the African Great Lakes region. His current interests are in the influence of refugee populations on host communities, and the impact of return in post-conflict settings. Craig has consulted on numerous migration-related projects for organizations like UNHCR, IOM, ILO and OECD, among others, and has conducted fieldwork in Burundi and Rwanda. He holds Masters degrees in Economics and International Political Economy and Development (IPED) from Fordham University, and a PhD from the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT.

Lecturer in human geography, Loughborough University, Geography and Environment (as of 2018). Before joining Loughborough, I worked as the main researcher on the EU Horizon 2020 ‘YMOBILITY’ project at the University of Sussex, researching youth mobilities across Europe (2015-2018). I as was also a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland where she researched migrant children and families (2016-2018), founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research, University of Latvia. As of September 2019 I am also Adjunct Professor, docent, migration and mobility studies, University of Eastern Finland, Geography department.

I am a Postgraduate Research Student within the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. My PhD topic will explore the disparate ways in which migration has impacted the lives of Filipino labour migrants in the United Kingdom, as well as their left-behind family members in the Philippines. It will focus on the extent to which the migration of a family member affects dynamics of the family household. It will investigate the issues that migrants and the members of the left-behind family face as a result of migration and the various means through which both groups are able to sustain crucial filial responsibilities and affective ties (social reproductive and emotional labour) despite the geographical distance.

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.

Sowmya Maheswaran is doing her PhD at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University (Berlin) and is a doctoral fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation. At the intersection of global and political anthropology, her dissertation deals with political subjectivities of dissidents and their cultures of resistance in violent contexts. Postcolonial negotiations and global entanglements of racism, nationalism, and migration/(im-)mobilities in war and post-war situations form her central lines of research. The ethnographic focus of the ongoing PhD project is on Tamil conflicts and struggles in Sri Lanka and related transnational diaspora movements.

I am interested in migration and development issues especially migrant workers and refugee issues. my current research about unprocedural migrant workers in Indonesia: pattern and causes.

Cigdem Manap is a Visiting Scholar at Brandenburg University of Technology. Before, she was an assistant professor at Department of Sociology, Suleyman Demirel University and Research Fellow at Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Her research and publications focus on international migration, refugees and asylum seekers, social exclusion, migration policies of Turkey and Europe.

I am an Associate professor of Political Science at the International relations institute of Cameroon (IRIC). Former PhD fellow at Sciences Po / CEVIPOF in Paris, France (2007-2010), I defended a PhD thesis entitled "The virtual citizenship and new forms of political participation of Cameroonian Immigrants in France". My teaching and research domains are Public Policies in Africa, Migration and Citizenship in Africa, Migration and Expertise, Social Crises, Migration and Cultures.