Experts Database

Pedro Góis is a Professor in Sociology and Methodology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Undergraduate degree in Sociology, masters and PhD in Sociology. He is an expert in sociology of migration and quantitative methodologies. Recently he was consultant or country expert for the International Organisation for Migration (OIM), Caritas International, The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), European Commission or European Migration Network (EMN). His most recent research-driven publications used quantitative and qualitative methodologies and include papers and books on: refugees in Europe; transnational ethnic identity; Portuguese immigration and emigration; Brazilian migration or Eastern European migrants; discrimination practices in the labour market; immigrants' descendants; and diasporic engagement practices and policies.

Dr. N. Ela Gökalp-Aras is a senior researcher and the principal investigator of “GAPs: De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond Project” Horizon Project at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). She has a B.A. degree in International Relations from Ankara University (2000), MSc. (2005) Ph.D. (2013) degrees in Sociology from Middle East Technical University. She is MSc. student at SOAS London University, Climate Change and Development Programme.

Gülay Uğur Göksel is an Assistant Professor at the department of International Relations in Istanbul Bilgi University. Dr. Göksel has completed her Ph.D. degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Her research interests are immigration, multiculturalism and critical theory. She has a manuscript entitled Integration of Immigrants and the Theory of Recognition: Just Integration (2017. Palgrave Macmillan-International Political Theory Series).

I work as a guest researcher at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences Department focusing on the political behaviors of migrants in the Netherlands.

In 2017, I received my Ph.D. in Social Communication from the Communication Department at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. Since 2010, my research has focused on intercultural communication, cultural differences, European education policies, mobility in Europe, identities, and immigration.

Steven J. Gold is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His scholarly interests include international migration, ethnic economies, ethnic community development, qualitative field methods and visual sociology. Gold is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of nine books including The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington Press 2002) which won the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the ASA’s International Migration Section for the best book on international migration in 2003. His book Ethnic Economies, co-authored with Ivan Light of UCLA, has received 1496 Google Scholar citations. The chair of 22 PhD dissertations and author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews, Gold received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association in 2007 and was a Visiting Scholar for the Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master’s in International Migration and Social Cohesion program at the University of Amsterdam and University of Osnabruck during Fall 2014. He received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section in 2019.

I’m a Social Anthropologist from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). I have a Master in Medical Anthropology, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology specializing in Medical Anthropology, from the University of Rovira and Virgili (Spain). The title of my research thesis was: “TO BE AN INMIGRANT IS NOT AN ILLNESS”. Immigration, life and working conditions in Spain. The health/illness/care process of Senegalese immigrants in Barcelona”, qualified with honors (2004). Since then, the nature of the work I have performed has been Social, Cultural and Medical Anthropology, Public Health, International Migrations and Refugees, from a trasnational perspective.

I am a social scientist with research expertise in activism and civil society, post-conflict societies, the everyday, migration, inter-ethnic dynamics, identity and gender. My multi-disciplinary background and commitment to visual, sensory and mixed methods shape both my research and my teaching practice.

Dr. Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs / Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. Her expertise lies in migration, gender, and human rights. As a scholar, educator, activist, and migrant woman, Golesorkhi’s work is concerned with intersectional and decolonial approaches towards migration-gender relations in a global context. Golesorkhi is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice. She was a winner of the 2015 United Nations Academic Impact Global Diversity Contest and has since been internationally recognized for her contributions as a human rights defender.