Experts Database

Alexandra Pereira, Postdoc Research Fellow in Integral Human Development (IHD) at CADOS, Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). PhD by ISEG - University of Lisbon with a thesis entitled "Transborder Himalaya - Processes of Transnationalism Among Nepalese Entrepreneurs and Workers in Lisbon" (2019) and MA in Clinical Psychology by Coimbra University (2004). Researches Nepalese Migration in Portugal (entrepreneurship, labour, networks, female migrants, new media usage, mobility), Nepalese Transnational Networks and Nepalese in Europe. Conducted FAMI Project "Migration and Labour Exploitation of Nepalese in Agriculture in Portugal" (2017-2019).

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Manchester, UK and has recently finished a three year postdoc position at the HOMInG Project, University of Trento. His research interests include home and home-making, conflict-induced displacement, migration and mobilities, and ageing. Recent publications include ‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’ (Migration Studies, 2021), ‘Remaking a place called home following displacement (in the Routledge Handbook of Place, 2020), Thinking home on the move (co-authored, 2020) and ‘Where the heart is and where it hurts’ (Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2019).

Jean Edwidge Petit-frère is currently finishing a master’s degree in International Migrations with a focus on actors and institutions of migration, reception, and international solidarity in France. He is the Head of Research at The HAITI Migration group, an organization whose mission is to contributes to better migration policy development in Haiti.

Migration and Asylum Senior Expert, her fields of interest include external and internal dimensions of the EU's migration and asylum policies and forced migrations triggered by protracted humanitarian crises, weak governance and under-development.
Ph.D. in Development Geography (2009), graduated with mention in Political Science (2003), she has been working in the field of migration and asylum since 2005.
Her progressive professional experience includes academic research, policy-oriented analysis, and interventions’ design, planning, management and monitoring in the field of vulnerable migrant groups (mainly UAMs and THB survivors and, recently, persons with mental disorder) and related protection and reception issues.
In EASO (European Asylum Support Office) since January 2019, she is currently Quality Assurance Officer on Reception and Special Needs (UAMs, THB).
Previous service includes International Organizations (OSCE, FAO), NGOs (Save the Children, CIES and others), Universities (Sapienza University of Rome, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University),Think Tanks (The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, FIERI), and Governmental Institutions (Ministry of Labor and Social Policy-DG Migration and Integration Policies).
Research Associate at the Unesco Chair in Population, Migration and Development (Rome Chapter), as an adjunct professor she has also taught Crisis Prevention and Management, Geopolitics and Analysis of Migratory Flows.

I am assistant professor at Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw. At the same time I am PhD candidate at Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. In my research I try to combine civics, migration studies and critical theory (gender and postcolonial) on mezo- and microlevel. Especially I am interested in minorities - majority groups relations on the individual level (biographical research on refugee woman in Poland), institutional level (coNcultural practices among Ukrainian students in Poland) and civic attitudes among migrants in Poland.

Janine Pinkow-Läpple is a doctoral researcher at IAMO and HU Berlin. Prior to that she obtained a Master in Peace Research and International Politics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Her areas of expertise and professional interest include return migration, social remittances and female migration. The geographical focus of her research is Southeast Europe. She currently writes her PhD thesis on social remittances (Working title: "From Social to Intangible Remittances: A Conceptual Recalibration with Empirical Evidence from Southeast Europe").

Gaby Poblet is an Anthropologist specialized in International Migrations and Public Policies. She holds a PhD in social anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and she is a researcher at the Centre for Migration Studies—EMIGRA (UAB). She is a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and at the Catalonia Open University (UOC) in Anthropology and Human Evolution. Her teaching includes Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Evolution, Anthropology Applied to public policy and Etnography and Qualitative research methodology at undergraduate and graduate levels.

She is the Ahead of ESM network (Europa Sense Murs, Europe Without Borders) and she has also worked as a consultant in several studies and reports for local governments and ONG's and international organisms such as ACNUR, Unicef, Save the Children, SETEM and European Comission. Her current research focuses on forced migration from Northern Triangle of Central American and endemic violence and she has also worked in several projects in the field of Latino migrations to Spain, migrant domestic workers and gender, family life rights, social integration, inequalities, and citizenship.

Hannah Pool is a postdoctoral researcher working on the role of money and borders in undocumented migration trajectories at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.