Experts Database

Irene Tuzi is a sociologist of migration with particular expertise in ethnography, refugee studies, gender studies and the Middle East. She holds a double PhD in Social Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome and Humboldt University of Berlin, received with honour (summa cum laude). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) at Humboldt University Berlin. Her current research project focuses on the impact of separation on integration among refugee families in Europe and the Middle East.

Guri Tyldum is a sociologist and research professor at Fafo Research Foundation in Oslo. Her main research interest is in migration aspirations and migration flows, currently doing research on migration aspirations in refugee populations, and the mobility of Ukrainian refugees in Europe. She has published on refugee mobility, irregular migration, migration from Ukraine, labour migration, human trafficking and methodological challenges in the study of rare and elusive poulationas.

Tessa Ubels researches the intended and unintended social effects of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for displaced persons. She uses a mixed-method, multi-sited and longitudinal research approach.

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).