Experts Database

Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic studies, has written extensively on Islam and Muslims in Europe, Islamophobia and Islam and music. He is educated at Lund University, Sweden.

Ismail Oubad is a Doctoral Researcher within the ERC AdG SOLROUTES Project (Solidarities and Migrants' Routes Across Europe at Large), hosted by the University of Genoa. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies of the University of Liège. Currently his research interest and PhD thesis focus on the solidarity actions and support networks to dwelling and migrants’ border transgression within and across the Belgian borders, adopting ethnographic methods. Previously, Ismail has conducted research on, inter alia, the quest for legalization of Sub-Saharan protection seekers within the asylum determination procedures in Italy.

Mohammed Ouhemmou, an assistant professor Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco. My
fields of interest include public policy analysis, migration and internationalization policies. My
research investigates the link between foreign policy and the politics of mobility. In my Ph.D. thesis I examined the nexus between scholarships granted to sub- Saharan students in Morocco and the country’s desire to expand its influence, soft power, and build friendly links with African states. I am currently researching operations of migrant displacement and dispersal in Northern Morocco.

Gulce Safak Ozdemir is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she has finished her Master in Migration Studies as well. She obtained a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University. Her dissertation contributes to theoretical and empirical discussions regarding irregular migrants in the cities. She is currently working in UNU-WIDER as a consultant for the "Addressing Group-based Inequalities" project. She also worked as a researcher in the Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration. She is also a member of the IMISCOE-PhD network.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökay Özerim is a member of the International Relations Department and the Director of the European Union Research Center at Yaşar University, Izmir. Currently, he has been holding the Jean Monnet Chair on migration in EU-Turkey relations. His main study fields are international migration, security and European integration process. He was awarded Chevening Scholarship of UK Government in 2010 and carried out a part of his researches in the Centre of Migration, Politics and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford as part of his PhD studies. In 2014, he has been at the Institute of European Studies in University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar. He has been also working in several European Union funded projects and delivering trainings on intercultural learning, youth participation, social responsibility and project management since 2005. He was awarded a Jean Monnet Module in 2016 and Jean Monnet Chair in 2019 by the European Commission.