Experts Database

Farah Hasan is a doctoral research fellow at the Theology Faculty and Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She is part of the International Research Training Group: Transformative Religion funded by the DFG and National Research Foundation of South Africa. Her research focuses on Islam and Muslim identity and praxis in post-migration societies. In 2021, she was awarded the DAAD Prize for outstanding academic achievement for international students and doctoral candidates for her research on Muslim dating apps.

I am a researcher, consultant and development worker, have been working in Bangladesh for more than fifteen (15) years. My research interest includes Rural Communication Services (RCS), Communication for Development, Political Communication, SNA, Social Media Studies, Migration/Rohingya crisis and Human Trafficking.The research method I use include - Quantitative (Content Analysis, Sentiment Analysis, Social Network Analysis, Machine Learning/Data Science/Python); and Qualitative (phenomenological model, ethnographic model, grounded theory and case study)

I am Associate Professor and lecturer. My research focusses on migration and mobility, particularly international migration. My current research relates to international labour migration, through the example of Thai berry pickers in Sweden, which has been analysed ethnographically from a transnational and translocal perspective. I have also performed register based studies, analysing labour market careers and internal migration of international migrants in Sweden. My latest research project relates to lifestyle migration through the example of downshifting and voluntary simplicity, including how they affect migration patterns and the relationship to place. Often, my research adopts a rural perspective.

Lauren Heidbrink is an anthropologist and associate professor of human development at the California State University, Long Beach. She is author of Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014), an ethnography on unaccompanied child migration and detention in the United States. Her second book Migranthood: Youth in a new era of deportation (Stanford University Press 2020; published in Spanish with UNAM-CIMSUR 2021) examines the deportation of Indigenous youth in Central America and its enduring impacts on young people, their families and transnational communities. Heidbrink’s research has been supported by a National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. She was awarded the Fulbright Schuman 70th Anniversary Scholar Award to conduct comparative research on child migration in Greece, Italy, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. She is co-founder and editor of Youth Circulations, a nexus for research, art and activism dedicated to examining the real and imagined circulations of global youth.

Experienced social researcher with a background in politics and international relations as well as regional experience in the Western Balkans, particularly post-conflict issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Applying qualitative methods to understand the global interactions of political organisations with a special focus on transnational networks resulting from migration.

Dr. Christiane Heimann is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training and at the German Marshall Fund of the US. She holds expertise as academic researcher and policy analyst in various topics of migration and integration. In these areas she has worked and published on EU policies, multi-level governance, labor migration, international recruitment and labor market integration, local policies in metropolises, smaller cities and rural areas, city networks and the design of funding as well as data management. Her work was released by international academic journals and book series. Besides, she has conducted studies and reports for the European Commission, European Union Fundamental Rights Agency and the German Institute for Human Rights as well as for foundations, such as Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Robert Bosch Stiftung.
As a researcher and lecturer, she worked at the Institute for the Studies of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), the University of Hildesheim and the University of Bamberg in Germany, the migration research group GRITIM at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) and at the Migration Research Unit at the University College London (UK), Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). During her PhD, she was a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. Before, she studied European Studies in Social Sciences at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Germany) and the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain).

Frank Heins has been a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies since 2001. He is a geographer and demographer. His research interests are focused on the territorial aspects of the structures and dynamics of demographic and socio-economic processes, especially internal and international migration. His current projects are the study of family types and their dynamics, research on various aspects of internal migration in Italy and the observation of residential segregation.