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Uhde specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory and research of global interactions. Her current research revolves around interdisciplinary analyses of transnational migration, bordering practices, transnational social reproduction and commodification of care, with a regional expertise focused on central Europe and eastern Africa. She is an external research affiliate at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. She works at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and She is a member of the management committee of the COST network Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG).

I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen, currently on a research visit at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. I have previously held visiting research fellowships at the International Migration Institute in Oxford, the University of Amsterdam and the Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava.
My research focuses on several aspects of the migration process, including its relationship with development and socio-spatial inequality, migrant's decision to migrate and destination choice, and the role of local policies in mediating the effects of im/e-migration. I am particularly interested in the policies and practices implemented by local governments in origin countries to minimize the negative effects of emigration and maximize the positive effects.
I have previously worked on projects for several governments and international organizations, including the European Commission, the International Labor Organization, the International Organization for Migration and ESPON, among others.

Ovgu Ulgen is a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Montreal. In her dissertation, which has been funded by FRQSC (Québec research funding) and IRTG Diversity, she sought to understand immigrant belonging at the intersection of language and religion. She examined how societal particularities of Montréal and Toronto embedded in the processes of negotiating the difference and created a complex relation between language and religion. She explored how the lived experiences of immigrants differed from one another and what it said about interculturalism and multiculturalism in Canada. She further looked at how relations between immigrants and the majority groups and inter and intra-ethnic relations formed and transformed in these processes. Her analysis of the relation between language and religion made it possible to make sense of the continuing salience of religion in the “post-secular” age in Canada, specifically, how cultural religion emerged as an important determinant of immigrant boundary making in the communities she interviewed, especially in Québec. She holds an MA degree in Sociology from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In her M.A. research, which was awarded a scholarship, she focused on forced migration, collective memory, and urban politics in a neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey.

Associate Professor of Migration Studies, Geography, Environment and Development. //

Research Cluster Leader: Migration, Diaspora and Globalization //

Postdoctoral Fellow at Tallinn University (Estonia) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). Visiting Scholar at the Universidad Casa Grande (Ecuador). Dual Ph.D. in Humanities (Leiden University, the Netherlands) and in Political Science (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile). Chair of the IMISCOE's Election Committee. Co-Convenor of the Standing Committee of Migration, Citizenship, and Political Participation.