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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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Mohammed V University
Associate Professor
Rabat

Badre is a policy development expert, based in Germany. His research seeks to analyze current norms that hamper the progress and livelihood of migrants, women, and youth as social groups; and aims at generating evidence-based recommendations that could inform national and regional policies, providing comparable data across borders on key countries in the Southern Mediterranean Neighborhood. He worked for a number of international organizations (Fulbright, EU-JRC, ERASMUS+, InterAcademy Partnership, Konrad-Adenaeur Foundation, Global Young Academy, Next Einstein Forum, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, ECSA Global, and Arab Council for Social Sciences, American Political Sciences Association, MAJALAT Consortium; Réseau Euromed France REF; and EDU4U. He has also served as visiting professor & research fellow at Alfred University in New York, Monterey Institute for International Studies in California, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; Aalborg University in Denmark, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, and Babes Bolyai University in Romania. He is the editor of Social Science Section for ELSAVIER & Scientific African Journal. His recent publications include: North-South Economic Diplomacy: EU-Morocco Free Trade Negotiation (Germany, November 2020); & Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective (Germany May 2020). Currently, he is a coordinator and author the EuroMeSCo Joint Study Group 2021: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: A Comparative Perspective on Maghreb Countries Migration Cooperation with their West African Neighbours.

  • Mohammed V University
    Associate Professor
    Rabat
  • University of North Carolina
    Associate Researcher
    NC
  • Institute For Cultural Diplomacy
    Program Director
    Berlin
  • Aalborg Univerisity
    Visiting Professor
    Aalborg
  • Monterey Institute for Intrernational Studies
    Visiting Professor
    Monterey
  • American Language Center
    Professor
    Rabat
  • Alfred University
    Fulbright TA
    Alfred
  • Université Mohammed V de Rabat
    Assistant Professor
    Rabat

Badre is a policy development expert, based in Germany. His research seeks to analyze current norms that hamper the progress and livelihood of migrants, women, and youth as social groups; and aims at generating evidence-based recommendations that could inform national and regional policies, providing comparable data across borders on key countries in the Southern Mediterranean Neighborhood. He worked for a number of international organizations (Fulbright, EU-JRC, ERASMUS+, InterAcademy Partnership, Konrad-Adenaeur Foundation, Global Young Academy, Next Einstein Forum, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, ECSA Global, and Arab Council for Social Sciences, American Political Sciences Association, MAJALAT Consortium; Réseau Euromed France REF; and EDU4U. He has also served as visiting professor & research fellow at Alfred University in New York, Monterey Institute for International Studies in California, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; Aalborg University in Denmark, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, and Babes Bolyai University in Romania. He is the editor of Social Science Section for ELSAVIER & Scientific African Journal. His recent publications include: North-South Economic Diplomacy: EU-Morocco Free Trade Negotiation (Germany, November 2020); & Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective (Germany May 2020). Currently, he is a coordinator and author the EuroMeSCo Joint Study Group 2021: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: A Comparative Perspective on Maghreb Countries Migration Cooperation with their West African Neighbours.

Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow
Philadelphia

Osman Balkan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and Senior Fellow at the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the politics of migration, race/ethnicity, and citizenship in Western Europe and the Middle East. His first book project, Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe explores how minority communities manage and make sense of death and dying in countries where they face structural barriers to full citizenship.

  • Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
    Senior Fellow
    Philadelphia

Osman Balkan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and Senior Fellow at the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the politics of migration, race/ethnicity, and citizenship in Western Europe and the Middle East. His first book project, Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe explores how minority communities manage and make sense of death and dying in countries where they face structural barriers to full citizenship.

University Complutense Madrid
Madrid

Associate Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (U.C.M.), with teaching in the degree of Social Anthropology in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the (U.C. M.). Doctor Cum Laude and International Mention in Feminist and Gender Studies, by the Institute of Feminist Research of the Complutense University of Madrid. His research interests are Gender, Postcolonialism and Migrations, African Women and Care Practices, Traditional Systems of Economic Cooperation and Local Development. Professor in charge of the virtual teaching of Introduction to Social Anthropology at the Universidad de Mayores (Senior University UCM), and lecturer in the Master on Islam in Contemporary Societies at the UCM. He is the author of several publications, monographs, reports and articles on these subjects and participates as a Researcher / Collaborator in research projects at the same University.

  • University Complutense Madrid
    Madrid

Associate Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (U.C.M.), with teaching in the degree of Social Anthropology in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the (U.C. M.). Doctor Cum Laude and International Mention in Feminist and Gender Studies, by the Institute of Feminist Research of the Complutense University of Madrid. His research interests are Gender, Postcolonialism and Migrations, African Women and Care Practices, Traditional Systems of Economic Cooperation and Local Development. Professor in charge of the virtual teaching of Introduction to Social Anthropology at the Universidad de Mayores (Senior University UCM), and lecturer in the Master on Islam in Contemporary Societies at the UCM. He is the author of several publications, monographs, reports and articles on these subjects and participates as a Researcher / Collaborator in research projects at the same University.

The University Of Leeds
Associate Professor
Leeds

Associate Professor at the University of Leeds UK. Originally from Romania, Erasmus alumni and a 'migrant' in five European countries, my work seeks to bring new understandings of migrant rights, citizenship and integration, newly arrived migrant and refugee communities, diverse cities and global inequalities, borders and nations. PhD in Social and Political Studies, European University Institute (2013). Most recent projects: Feeding the nation: Seasonal migrants workers and food security (have a look! https://feedingthenation.leeds.ac.uk/ ) and Northern exposure: race, nation and dissatisfaction in 'ordinary' cities (have a look! https://northernexposure.leeds.ac.uk/) . Languages: Romanian, Spanish, Italian, English, passive knowledge German and French. Mother of second generation. She/her.

  • The University Of Leeds
    Associate Professor
    Leeds

Associate Professor at the University of Leeds UK. Originally from Romania, Erasmus alumni and a 'migrant' in five European countries, my work seeks to bring new understandings of migrant rights, citizenship and integration, newly arrived migrant and refugee communities, diverse cities and global inequalities, borders and nations. PhD in Social and Political Studies, European University Institute (2013). Most recent projects: Feeding the nation: Seasonal migrants workers and food security (have a look! https://feedingthenation.leeds.ac.uk/ ) and Northern exposure: race, nation and dissatisfaction in 'ordinary' cities (have a look! https://northernexposure.leeds.ac.uk/) . Languages: Romanian, Spanish, Italian, English, passive knowledge German and French. Mother of second generation. She/her.

Samangan Higher Education Institute
Lecturer and head of BBA department
Aybak

Ahmad Walid Barlas is from Afghanistan. He received his master's degree in economic and management from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Currently, he is employed as a lecturer and head of BBA department at Samangan Higher Education Institute, Afghanistan. His research interest area is migration, remittances and economic development. Mr. Barlas has conducted a number of research projects on migration studies.

  • Samangan Higher Education Institute
    Lecturer and head of BBA department
    Aybak

Ahmad Walid Barlas is from Afghanistan. He received his master's degree in economic and management from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Currently, he is employed as a lecturer and head of BBA department at Samangan Higher Education Institute, Afghanistan. His research interest area is migration, remittances and economic development. Mr. Barlas has conducted a number of research projects on migration studies.

Institute for Latin American Studies - Freie Universität Berlin
PhD Student
Berlin

I am a doctoral student in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin. In my doctoral project I am investigating remigration and reintegration processes of indocumented mexican labour migrants.
Before, I studied Cultural Sciences (Social Sciences / Cultural Anthropology / Socio-Linguistics) at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Universidad de Málaga (Spain) and Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico).

  • Institute for Latin American Studies - Freie Universität Berlin
    PhD Student
    Berlin

I am a doctoral student in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin. In my doctoral project I am investigating remigration and reintegration processes of indocumented mexican labour migrants.
Before, I studied Cultural Sciences (Social Sciences / Cultural Anthropology / Socio-Linguistics) at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Universidad de Málaga (Spain) and Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico).

Revibra
Research assistant
Brussels

International migration researcher currently doing a MA in Mobility Studies, in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padua. Has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from São Paulo State University (UNESP). Focused on Latin American migration flows and social network analysis. Assistant researcher at Revibra Europe, a network that provides support to Brazilian victims of gender-based violence and domestic abuse in the EU. Member of the Working Group on Migration at EST (European Student Think Tank).

  • Revibra
    Research assistant
    Brussels
  • EST - European Student Think Tank
    Member and researcher
    Brussels
  • University of Padua
    Tutor
    Padova

International migration researcher currently doing a MA in Mobility Studies, in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padua. Has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from São Paulo State University (UNESP). Focused on Latin American migration flows and social network analysis. Assistant researcher at Revibra Europe, a network that provides support to Brazilian victims of gender-based violence and domestic abuse in the EU. Member of the Working Group on Migration at EST (European Student Think Tank).

University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara

Jean Beaman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Editor of H-Net Black Europe, an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.

  • University of California Santa Barbara
    Santa Barbara

Jean Beaman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Editor of H-Net Black Europe, an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.

OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Senior Researcher
Oslo

I work as a senior researcher at the Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo Metropolitan University. I have a PhD in sociology from Queen's University, Belfast, UK. In the recent years, I have been involved in research examining migrant involvement in welfare services; I studied migrant mental health; I was involved in and researched migrant organizations; and I examined the refugee settlement strategies of the Norwegian municipalities. My research interests span migration; transnationalism; public health; studies in mental health and well-being; resilience; welfare services; family migration. Since 2019, I have been an assistant editor of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.

  • OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
    Senior Researcher
    Oslo

I work as a senior researcher at the Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo Metropolitan University. I have a PhD in sociology from Queen's University, Belfast, UK. In the recent years, I have been involved in research examining migrant involvement in welfare services; I studied migrant mental health; I was involved in and researched migrant organizations; and I examined the refugee settlement strategies of the Norwegian municipalities. My research interests span migration; transnationalism; public health; studies in mental health and well-being; resilience; welfare services; family migration. Since 2019, I have been an assistant editor of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.

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