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

Research Cluster Leader: Migration, Diaspora and Globalization //

I am working in the fields of migration and gender, reception, and labor migration policy, employment and care (work). Key questions that matter to me in my work are: how are social inequalities and differences produced in society, what are the underlying mechanisms and functions, what does this mean for participation chances of different groups, and what role can supporting and administrative organizations and institutions play in societal change? Research and theories from sociology, migration studies, intersectionality and gender studies, organizational and labour studies enrich and guide my thinking. I have more than ten years of experience in empirical research, teaching, counseling, project management and coordination. I am passionate about bringing together research- and practice-oriented knowledge to better understand migration policies and their impact on processes of labor market participation and mobility in a global world.

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.

Hakan Ünay is a PhD student Department of International Relations at Kırıkkale University. At the same time, he has been working as a researcher at the Migration Research Foundation since May 2019, film review editor at Borders in Globalization Review, and as a member of the Association for Borderland Studies. His main fields of study are migration and border management and states' border policies. I completed my master's degree in this field in June 2021 with the title "From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Construction of New Walls: An Analysis of the Israel-Palestine and Turkey-Syria Walls from a Realist Perspective". As a researcher who wants to specialize in borders, He has many academic publications in Turkish and English.

Christian Ungruhe is a trained anthropologist with a strong interdisciplinary approach and working experience in the fields of human geography, global history, sport sociology and social anthropology. In his research, he focusses on issues of migration and mobility in the realm of youth, gender, work and sport with a regional emphasis on rural and urban West Africa.
His publications feature two monographs, ‘Lasten tragen, Moderne befördern. Wanderarbeit, Jugend, Erwachsenwerden und ihre geschlechtsspezifischen Differenzierungen in Ghana’ (‘Carrying load, transporting modernity. Gendered perspectives on labour migration, youth and social becoming in Ghana’) (Lit Verlag) and ‘African Football Migration. Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories’ (with Paul Darby and James Esson; Manchester University Press).

Lecturer at the University of Deusto and researcher and director of the Human Rights Institute (U. of Deusto). PhD in International and Intercultural Studies, University of Deusto; Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology, University of the Basque Country; Specialist Diploma in International Humanitarian Action-NOHA, UD and University of Uppsala. He has worked with NGOs, governmental and international organisations in the field of international cooperation in Europe and South America. His research currently focuses on human rights, migrations, diversity and religion.

Chilean, Sociologist (UC), MSc. International Social and Public Policy - Migration (LSE).
Experience in public sector, academia and consultancy.

I am a doctoral candidate in Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions, at the
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua, Italy. My research interests focus on the impact of digital technology on the process of the social integration of forced migrants. I am currently conducting a study on the digital experiences of the Syrian migrants based in Bavaria, Germany. The purpose of my research is to explore how digital platforms, mobile applications, in particular, are developed and implemented from one side, and appropriated by migrants from the other side.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Department of Sociology at Koç University, Istanbul since 2016. I am also a member of the executive board of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). As of January 2020, I am one of the editors of the journal International Migration.

My primary research interests include power, inequalities and contestations in relation to different aspects of international mobility. My work therefore is largely informed by sociology of migration, critical security studies and global governance. My current research explores dynamics of integration and social cohesion at the local level as well as changing migration and mobility aspirations.