Experts Database

Andra-Lucia Martinescu is a Research Fellow with the Foreign Policy Centre (a London think tank) and Co-founder of The Diaspora Initiative, a non-profit research initiative based in Luxembourg, focusing on migration and diasporas. After completing her MPhil in International Relations at the University of Cambridge, Andra continued with a part-time doctorate on the geopolitics of the Black Sea region (which she has yet to submit). She previously worked in various research capacities for the British Army (Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst) and think tanks such as RUSI (Royal United Services Institute for Security and Defence, London) and RAND Europe (Cambridge). Andra is also a diaspora expert affiliated with EUDiF (European Union Global Diaspora Facility, Brussels). Her expertise and research interests include operations and conflict analysis, the geopolitics of the ex-Soviet space, regional histories, transnationalism and civil society, migration, and diasporas, to name a few. Andra's body of work is interdisciplinary and blends advanced quantitative and qualitative methodologies (i.e. Social Network Analysis, satellite imagery and spatial analysis).

Daniel E. Martínez is an Associate Professor of Sociology, a core faculty member in the Mexican American Studies Department, and a co-director of the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies, School of Geography, Development & Environment, and the SBS Human Rights Practice Program.

Dr. Martínez's research and teaching interests include race and ethnicity, undocumented immigration, and criminology. He is particularly interested in the social and legal criminalization of undocumented migration. Dr. Martínez has also conducted extensive research on deportations and undocumented border crosser deaths along the US-Mexico border. He is a principal investigator of the Migrant Border Crossing Study, a Ford Foundation-funded research project that examines recently deported undocumented migrants' experiences crossing the US-Mexico border and residing in the United States.

His current research focuses on 1) Latina/o/x panethnicity, 2) the relationship between so-called “sanctuary” policies and public safety, and 3) the ecological correlates of officer-involved shootings and violent crime in southwestern cities.

I'm a PhD student at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) and the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). My doctorate thesis focuses on the the challanges of immigrant community-based organizations in Milan and on community participation of immigrant people as a way to improve their wellbeing and psychological empowerment.

Marco MARTINIELLO (1960), BA in Sociology; PhD in Social and Political Science, European University Institute Florence (Italy) is Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). He teaches Sociology and Politics at the University of Liège. He also taught at the College of Europe (Natolin, Poland) from 2008 to 2016. He is the director of the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liège and the Director of the Institute for Social research ofthe Faculty of Social Sciences at the same University.

He was visiting scholar or visiting professor in different universities: Columbia University, New York University, Cornell University, City University of New York, University of Malmö (Sweden), Sciences Po Paris, University of Warwick (UK), University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), University of Kwazulu Natal (Durban, South Africa), European University Institute (Florence, Italy), University of Geneva, etc.

He is also a founding member of the European Research Network IMISCOE and was President of the Research Committee n°31 Sociology of Migration (International Sociological Association) from 2008 to 2014. He is the author, editor or co-editor of numerous articles, book chapters, reports and books on migration, ethnicity, racism, multiculturalism and citizenship. They include Citizenship in European Cities (Ashgate, 2004), Migration between States and Markets (Ashgate 2004), The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants. A Transatlantic Perspective (Routledge 2009), Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation (co-edited with Jan Rath, Amsterdam University Press, 2010), La démocratie multiculturelle (Presses de Sc Po, 2011), An Introduction to International Migration Studies. European Perspectives (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2012) (with Jan Rath), Penser l’Ethnicité (Liège, Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2013), Multiculturalism and the Arts in European Cities (London, Routledge, 2014)

His current research examines the artistic expression and participation of immigrant, ethnicized and racialized minorities in super-diverse cities and countries.

Katrijn MARYNS is assistant professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and
Communication at Ghent University, Belgium. Her linguistic-ethnographic research
examines multilingual discursive practices and linguistic inequality in institutional contexts
of globalisation, with a particular focus on asylum and migration. She has published on
diverse aspects of the Belgian asylum procedure, including the role of narrative
construction, credibility assessment, interpreting and lingua franca interaction. She is the
author of ‘The asylum speaker: Language in the Belgian asylum procedure’ (Routledge
2006), editor (with Philipp Angermeyer, York University) of the book series ‘Translation,
Interpreting and Social Justice in a Globalised World' (Multilingual Matters), and she has
published in various international peer-reviewed journals (Applied Linguistics, Language in
Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language & Communication).

Gianmarco Marzola is a PhD candidate in anthropology based at the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon. His work focuseson politics, religion and migration, with fieldwork carried out in Europe and the Middle East, while working as an NGO professional or volunteering in associations of the local civil society.

Human geographer and cross-disciplinary social researcher with expertise in migrant/transnational families and care, social policy and migration, onward mobilities and the emotional geographies of migration of adult/young migrants and later-generation children and young people. Specialist in person-centred qualitative methods with a particular interest in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic approaches.

A Fulbright Scholar and a DAAD research fellow, Mais has worked with humanitarian organisations and research institutes in North America, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and Germany focusing on forced migration issues. Her area of expertise includes resilience in post conflict, human trafficking, and protracted displacement. Her work has appeared in numerous academic platforms such as the Journal of Refugee Studies, the Reiss Center of New York University School of Law, and Die Friedens-Warte Journal.