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In partnership with IMISCOE’s Migration Research Hub, this database provides access to a range of migration experts from around the world. The academics and researchers registered with IMISCOE contribute their publications and expertise to further innovation in the field of migration studies, bringing knowledge on a range of topics related to the Global Compact for Migration. Links to their research are provided in their profiles. Search the database below by expertise and location to find an expert and review their latest work. Sign-in to contact an expert directly.

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  • University of Melbourne Law School
    PhD Student
    Carlton
  • MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati)
    co-coordinator
  • Critical Statelessness Studies Project
    Co-Editor
    Melbourne
Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), IOM
Senior Analyst

Dr. Susanne Melde is a Senior Analyst at the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Berlin, Germany. Her main areas of work are migration governance and knowledge management of understanding migration data.

Ms. Melde has 12 years of experience in working on migration research and policy at IOM. From 2014 to 2017 she has managed a major EU-funded research project on migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental and climate change in 6 pilot countries. Currently she coordinates the Global Migration Data Portal and analysis on migration governance in a number of countries.

She has a BA in International Relations from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany; an MA in Human Rights and a PhD in Migration Studies from Sussex University in the UK.

  • Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), IOM
    Senior Analyst

Dr. Susanne Melde is a Senior Analyst at the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Berlin, Germany. Her main areas of work are migration governance and knowledge management of understanding migration data.

Ms. Melde has 12 years of experience in working on migration research and policy at IOM. From 2014 to 2017 she has managed a major EU-funded research project on migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental and climate change in 6 pilot countries. Currently she coordinates the Global Migration Data Portal and analysis on migration governance in a number of countries.

She has a BA in International Relations from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany; an MA in Human Rights and a PhD in Migration Studies from Sussex University in the UK.

University of South-Eastern Norway
Dr. Associate Professor
Drammen

Dr Gabriela Mezzanotti is Associate Professor in Social Sciences at the University of South-Eastern Norway and a Lawyer. She is the co-leader of USN’s research group “Human Rights and Diversities”. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and a MA degree in International Law. She chaired the UNHCR Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair at Unisinos University (Brazil) for 8 years. Her research addresses critical discourse studies, critical decolonial and intersectional approaches to rights and policies related to power, human rights and migration. She is a human rights activist and has a wide range of policy and practice-based experiences within migration and minorities contexts with intergovernmental bodies and NGOs in Latin America. She is also the former coordinator of the International Relations BA Program and the Executive Graduate Program in International Relations and Diplomacy at Unisinos University in Brazil. She is a former representative member of COMIRAT (Rio Grande do Sul State Committee for Migrants, Refugees, Stateless Persons, and Human Trafficking Survivors) and COMIRAT/POA (The city of Porto Alegre Committee for Migrants, Refugees, Stateless Persons, and Human Trafficking Survivors). She is a former member of NEABI (Afro descendants and Indigenous studies centre at Unisinos University) and a former member of its United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent Internal Commission. Mezzanotti is a former Associate Editor for the Human Rights Education Review (HRER/USN). She was a visiting faculty at the Federal Judges Superior School, Brazil, and, more recently, at the Institute of Regional Studies, Visiting Professors Programme at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and at the Visiting Professors Program at the PhD Program in Society, Culture, and Borders, State University of West Parana, Brazil. Her most recent publications address critical and decolonial views on the racialization of Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples on the move, the criminalization of humanitarian aid, migrant detention, refugee protection in Latin America and urban violence in Brazil.

  • University of South-Eastern Norway
    Dr. Associate Professor
    Drammen
  • Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
    Associate Professor
    Sao Leopoldo
  • Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
    Associate Professor
    Sao Leopoldo

Dr Gabriela Mezzanotti is Associate Professor in Social Sciences at the University of South-Eastern Norway and a Lawyer. She is the co-leader of USN’s research group “Human Rights and Diversities”. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and a MA degree in International Law. She chaired the UNHCR Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair at Unisinos University (Brazil) for 8 years. Her research addresses critical discourse studies, critical decolonial and intersectional approaches to rights and policies related to power, human rights and migration. She is a human rights activist and has a wide range of policy and practice-based experiences within migration and minorities contexts with intergovernmental bodies and NGOs in Latin America. She is also the former coordinator of the International Relations BA Program and the Executive Graduate Program in International Relations and Diplomacy at Unisinos University in Brazil. She is a former representative member of COMIRAT (Rio Grande do Sul State Committee for Migrants, Refugees, Stateless Persons, and Human Trafficking Survivors) and COMIRAT/POA (The city of Porto Alegre Committee for Migrants, Refugees, Stateless Persons, and Human Trafficking Survivors). She is a former member of NEABI (Afro descendants and Indigenous studies centre at Unisinos University) and a former member of its United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent Internal Commission. Mezzanotti is a former Associate Editor for the Human Rights Education Review (HRER/USN). She was a visiting faculty at the Federal Judges Superior School, Brazil, and, more recently, at the Institute of Regional Studies, Visiting Professors Programme at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and at the Visiting Professors Program at the PhD Program in Society, Culture, and Borders, State University of West Parana, Brazil. Her most recent publications address critical and decolonial views on the racialization of Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples on the move, the criminalization of humanitarian aid, migrant detention, refugee protection in Latin America and urban violence in Brazil.

Center for Social and Migration Studies
Director
Kastoria

Domna Michail is a Professor of Anthropology of Education, Migration and Minorities, at the Department of Communication and Digital Media of the University of Western Macedonia-Greece (UOWM). She has completed her Bachelor Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Diploma of Advanced Studies and Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) in Great Britain. Currently she is the Director of the Center of Migration and Social Studies of the School of Social and Humanities Studies of the UOWM.

  • Center for Social and Migration Studies
    Director
    Kastoria

Domna Michail is a Professor of Anthropology of Education, Migration and Minorities, at the Department of Communication and Digital Media of the University of Western Macedonia-Greece (UOWM). She has completed her Bachelor Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Diploma of Advanced Studies and Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) in Great Britain. Currently she is the Director of the Center of Migration and Social Studies of the School of Social and Humanities Studies of the UOWM.

Ukrainian Catholic Univrsity
Professor
Lviv

Is a DAAD professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She is also professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). In the spring semesters of 2020 and 2022 she was visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). She has participated in more than 20 sociological research projects, in 10 of which she was a principal investigator. She researches a wide range of areas, including the historical aspects of deviant and delinquent behavior, urban studies, paramilitary motivations, forced displacement, migration and has over twenty years of research and teaching experience. In 2016 she was a visiting professor in Ukraine European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Science (Vienna), and in 2015 she was Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute.

  • Ukrainian Catholic Univrsity
    Professor
    Lviv

Is a DAAD professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She is also professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). In the spring semesters of 2020 and 2022 she was visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). She has participated in more than 20 sociological research projects, in 10 of which she was a principal investigator. She researches a wide range of areas, including the historical aspects of deviant and delinquent behavior, urban studies, paramilitary motivations, forced displacement, migration and has over twenty years of research and teaching experience. In 2016 she was a visiting professor in Ukraine European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Science (Vienna), and in 2015 she was Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute.

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
PhD Student
Halle

Stefan Millar is a doctoral candidate in the Law and Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. He earned a BSc in Anthropology at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), and then conducted his Master’s studies in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (with a specialization in Social Anthropology) at Tampere University (Finland). Currently, his research examines the role of states within Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement in Turkana county, Kenya. The researcher is a part of a cohort “the technicization of exclusionary practices in the context of migration” at the Law and Anthropology Department, which critically examines the expansion and impact of the EU’s legal and technological strategies to control migration.

  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    PhD Student
    Halle

Stefan Millar is a doctoral candidate in the Law and Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. He earned a BSc in Anthropology at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), and then conducted his Master’s studies in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (with a specialization in Social Anthropology) at Tampere University (Finland). Currently, his research examines the role of states within Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement in Turkana county, Kenya. The researcher is a part of a cohort “the technicization of exclusionary practices in the context of migration” at the Law and Anthropology Department, which critically examines the expansion and impact of the EU’s legal and technological strategies to control migration.

Uppsala University
Professor
Uppsala

Patricia Mindus is a legal and political philosopher at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has an interest in legal realism, democratic theory and migration. Signature contributions include the functionalist theory of citizenship and the theory of migration as institutional fact. Previously Wallenberg Academy Fellow, she is now the Director of Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice and the President of the Swedish IVR. She directs research on citizenship and migration policy in the EU, with a political and legal theory perspective and has authored several monographs on citizenship , European citizenship and rights.

  • Uppsala University
    Professor
    Uppsala

Patricia Mindus is a legal and political philosopher at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has an interest in legal realism, democratic theory and migration. Signature contributions include the functionalist theory of citizenship and the theory of migration as institutional fact. Previously Wallenberg Academy Fellow, she is now the Director of Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice and the President of the Swedish IVR. She directs research on citizenship and migration policy in the EU, with a political and legal theory perspective and has authored several monographs on citizenship , European citizenship and rights.

University of Antwerp
Postdoctoral Researcher
Antwerp

Amal Miri holds a PhD in Gender & Diversity from Ghent University. In this ethnographic research at the intersection of marriage migration, motherhood and integration among Moroccan women in Flanders, she conducted feminist and participatory action research with expertise in affective citizenship. As part of this research, she has published in several international peer-reviewed journals such as JEMS. In the past she worked as a project researcher at ella, a non-profit organization promoting the empowerment and participation process of women from ethnic minority (ECM) groups in Brussels and Flanders. During this period Miri worked on a government funded project called NASIB, dedicated to empower and inform actual (Flanders) and future marriage migrants (in Morocco). Today she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS - department of Sociology).

  • University of Antwerp
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Antwerp
  • Ghent University
    Affiliated member
    Ghent

Amal Miri holds a PhD in Gender & Diversity from Ghent University. In this ethnographic research at the intersection of marriage migration, motherhood and integration among Moroccan women in Flanders, she conducted feminist and participatory action research with expertise in affective citizenship. As part of this research, she has published in several international peer-reviewed journals such as JEMS. In the past she worked as a project researcher at ella, a non-profit organization promoting the empowerment and participation process of women from ethnic minority (ECM) groups in Brussels and Flanders. During this period Miri worked on a government funded project called NASIB, dedicated to empower and inform actual (Flanders) and future marriage migrants (in Morocco). Today she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS - department of Sociology).

University of Amsterdam
Postdoctoral Researcher
Amsterdam

Sabah Mofidi, from Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), is a PhD graduate in Political Science and a scholar in Kurdish studies. Currently he is working on a project on the change in political identity among Kurdish immigrants in western Europe, holding a postdoctoral scholarship funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

  • University of Amsterdam
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Amsterdam

Sabah Mofidi, from Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), is a PhD graduate in Political Science and a scholar in Kurdish studies. Currently he is working on a project on the change in political identity among Kurdish immigrants in western Europe, holding a postdoctoral scholarship funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

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