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I am an anthropologist specialising in the intersection between migration, aid and security in mainland Southeast Asia. Initially trained in social anthropology at University of Oslo and Macquarie University in Australia, I worked for the United Nations Development Programme in the Mekong region before returning to the social sciences. After completing my PhD and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology at Macquarie University, I was in 2012 appointed lecturer in Anthropology (Development Studies) at the Australian National University. I am the current co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) and have served in several leadership roles, including the Discipline Head of Anthropology and Research Convenor within the School or Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University.

I have two decades research and programme experience on human trafficking, development and mobility in the Mekong region. In my PhD fieldwork I carried out research on migration and anti-trafficking interventions along the Lao-Thai border. My current research examines how “safe migration” has become an important modality of migration governance in the Mekong region. My overarching research agenda advances the study of the securitisation of aid and mobility in a comparative perspective. Its theoretical contribution is to illuminate how relations and structures of power permeate through development and humanitarian practices as well as how such efforts are mobilised, enacted, and legitimated. I extend my academic research through collaborations with UN agencies and other external partners through consultancies, commissioned research, and other forms of engagements.

I am the author of Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia and The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong (University of Hawaii Press).

Dr. Judith Möllers is an agricultural economist and has been a senior scientist at IAMO since 2006. She is the deputy head of Department Agricultural Policy. Her areas of expertise and professional interest include migration and return migration, financial and social remittances, migration impacts in the origin areas, migration and development links, rural depopulation, rural poverty and rural livelihoods. The geographical focus of her research is mainly on Southeast Europe.

My research revolves around media and their role in societal changes, particularly in the context of conflict and repression with a focus on the disenfranchised and actors who challenge the status quo. I am specialised in the Middle East and have conducted ethnographic fieldworks in Egypt, Syria and the Öresund Region.

post-doctoral researcher

Dr Tamás MOLNÁR (1980) graduated at the ELTE, Faculty of Law (Budapest) in 2003 and the ULB-IEE (Brussels) in 2006 (LLM on EU law). In 2010 he passed the Hungarian bar exam. He obtained his Ph.D. in public international law in 2013 at ELTE (Budapest) with the dissertation: “Incorporation of international legal norms into Hungarian law” (an upgraded version of which, as a monograph, was awarded the Geza Herczegh International Law Prize in 2013). He obtained his “habilitation” (Dr.habil.) in public international law in 2022 at ELTE (Budapest).
He completed, i.a., the Marie Curie Top Summer School on International Criminal Law (2006), The Hague Academy of Public International Law (2008), the IOM International Migration Law Course (2008), the UN International Law Seminar (2009), the EUI Academy of European Law, (2010 - awarded with the diploma), the International Summer School in Forced Migration of the University of Oxford (2011), and the Winter Academy on AI and International Law at the T.M.C Asser Institute in The Hague (2020).
Since September 2016, he has been working as legal research officer on asylum, migration and borders at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Before that, between 2015-2016, he acted as senior international law advisor in the State Secretariat of Hungarian Minorities and Diaspora, PM’s Office in Hungary (protection of minorities in int'l law, relevance of nationality under int'l law, advocating minority rights in the EU, participating in the UN, CoE, OSCE). Previously, he was the head of the Migration Unit, Department of EU Cooperation, Ministry of the Interior of Hungary (2010 - Jan.2015), chiefly dealing with visas, return, readmission, immigration detention, asylum and human rights of migrants as well as strategic litigation before the CJEU. He also undertook ad hoc consultancies for UNHCR on statelessness (2010-2016) and on readmission for ICMPD (2013-2014).
He has been also teaching-researching in the Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of International Relations since 2003 (courses: public international law, international/EU migration law, diplomatic/consular law), currently as a visiting lecturer on international migrtion law. He has widely published in the fields of international law and EU law. He is a member of the European Society of International Law – ESIL (also a co-convener of the ESIL Interest Group on ‘The EU as a Global Actor’ and served as a co-convener of the Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law between 2016 and 2022), the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the International Law Association (ILA) – Hungarian Branch (he is member of the ILA Committee on International Migration and International Law and the Committee on the Protection of Persons at Sea), the Société française pour le droit international (SFDI), the Italian Society of International Law (SIDI), the Fédération internationale de droit européen (FIDE), and the European Law Institute (ELI); and he is an associate member of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) as well. He is a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law (published by Eleven International); and was a member of the editorial board of ‘ Acta Humana’, a Hungarian legal periodical in human rights law (2005-2013).

Dr. Molodikova Irina–leader of the Project on Migration and Security in the Post-Soviet Space (Central European University, Budapest-Vienna), Member of the Scientific Council of the Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Socio-political problems of the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union”, graduated Moscow State University (social geography department) in Russia and European University Center for Peace Studies (Austria), expert of Research Council of CIS countries and Baltic States on forced migration, director of “Migration study program” RESET Open Society Institute. Leader and co-leader of numerous international projects. Among the last are “Transit migration and security at the borderland of Russian Federation” (2017-2019), “Three generations of Russian-speaking migrants in Hungary: development of Russian language and identity roots in the host society” (2019-2021). Author and editor of more that 40 books, articles and reports, such as “Transit Migration in Europe” (Eds with F. Düvell and M. Collyer), AUP, 2014; “Migration Processes in NIS Countries (Youth Context)” (2008) (eds.); Russian Federation. Global review of migrant smuggling data and research: Volume II, IOM/UN: https://publications.iom.int/books/migrant-smuggling-data-and-research-…, Eurasian Migration towards Russia: Regional Dynamics in the era of Globalisation (2018), A. Triandafyllidou (ed), Handbook on Migration and Globalisation, Edward Elgar, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-of-migration-and-globalisation.

Marie Moncada is currently a postdoctoral fellow on the “Bridges” project with Virginie Guiraudon and Hélène Thiollet. This project evaluates the production and impact of migration narratives on public policies in six countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the UK).

She defended her political science thesis in 2019 under the supervision of Patrick Hassenteufel. It focuses on undocumented migrants’ access to health care in France and the United States. The analysis focuses mainly on the place of interest group narratives in other materials (written press, administration and parliament).

She also worked at the French National Centre for Scientific Research between 2015 and 2018 on a project entitled “RegMedProv”. This project studies the regulation policies of primary health care in territories under-supplied with health professionals in four countries (Germany, France, England and Sweden).

Other work focuses on the added value of CAQDAS (computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software) in social sciences. She has also been a temporary teaching and research associate in Montpellier and a temporary teacher in Paris.

Nasim is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Warsaw. He is a member of the Socio-Economic Research Unit at the Centre of Migration Research. He completed his MPhil as well as MA in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. His research interests include migration, fertility and ageing. His current research is focused on the fertility patterns of migrants in the context of low fertility.

I am specialised in EU migration and asylum policy and legislation; integration policies; and protection of Roma minority. I hold a PhD in European law-Fundamental Rights. I teach sometimes, carry out research and publication.
I hold a senior expertise in project development, management, monitoring, evaluation, training and policy analysis. Major works include evaluation of EU funds, projects and tools in the field of migration, integration and asylum; AVRR (assisted voluntary return and reintegration) and technical assistance to national, regional and local authorities in the above areas.

Martha Montero-Sieburth is a Lecturer in Social Sciences and Humanities at Amsterdam University College where she teaches ethnographic research. Previously she was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Social Science Faculty at the University of Amsterdam. She is Professor Emerita of the Leadership in Urban Schools Doctoral/Educational Administration Masters Programs at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. As a multi-, cross-, and intercultural comparative educator and community-based researcher, she has published several co-edited books, chapters and articles on American urban schooling, Latinos, and Mexicans in New England; bilingualism and curriculum development in Latin America; interculturalism in Spain; Latin Americans in Spain; Turkish Dutch youth in highly diverse high schools, and first- and second-generation Mexicans in the Netherlands. Lately she has published on the positionality and reflexivity of participatory research and ethics in the field of qualitative research. She is currently engaged in teaching students to conduct community ethnographies of diverse ethnic and migrant groups in Amsterdam and coordinating with the Mexican Embassy an educational project on the use of the Mexican primary school free textbooks for binational parents who wish to maintain Spanish and Mexican culture for their second-generation children.