Experts Database

Cecilia Estrada-Villaseñor holds a PhD in International Migration and Cooperation Development from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Master's Degree in International Relations and Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México, where she collaborated for the magazine NEXOS, in which she worked as an editor. She studied specialized journalism at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently Coordinator of the Refugees and Forced Migrants Chair - INDITEX. Coordinator of OBIMID (Ibero-American Observatory on Human Mobility, Migrations and Development) at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain.

Andreas Ette is Head of the Research Group “International Migration” at the German Federal Institute for Population Research. He is specializing on the sociology and the politics of international migration in Europe. Andreas has extensive experiences in managing general population surveys as well as special organisational surveys. His recent research focuses in particular on the consequences of international migration and its institutional opportunity structures for individual life courses.

Morgan is currently a Program Officer for Anti-Racism at the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. His book, The German Migration Integration Regime: Syrian Refugees, Bureaucracy, and Inclusion, will be available from Bristol University Press in October 2023. Morgan was previously a visiting Lecturer at LMU Munich’s Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology and an Anti-Discrimination Officer at the Anti-Discrimination Association Schleswig Holstein (advsh). He holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from LMU, during which time he was a Hans-Böckler Foundation Stipend Holder and a visiting scholar at the Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford. He additionally holds a Master’s Degree in Peace, Conflict and Development from University Jaume I, Spain.

Dr. Benjamin Etzold is a social geographer and migration scholar with more than 15 years of experience in studying people’s vulnerability and livelihoods as well as trajectories of migration and patterns of displacement. He works at the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC), a peace and conflict studies think tank.
He led the EU-funded H2020 project TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations of Displacement, 2019-2022), which investigated the translocal dimensions of protracted displacement, as scientific coordinator. https://trafig.eu

Quang David Evansluong is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE), Umeå University.
His research interests center on immigrant entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial opportunity creation process, social integration, diversity, sustainable entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship and sports entrepreneurship. Quang earned his PhD in Entrepreneurship in October 2016 at the Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University in Sweden.

Quang is working on research projects studying (1) transnational immigrant family entrepreneurship and opportunity creation, (2) sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms, and (3) digitalization and digital migrant entrepreneurship and (4) coping and resilience strategies among street vendors entrepreneurs. He has received research grants from FORTE (The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare); VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems); The Broman Foundation for Research and Entrepreneurship; VC ECR Development Awards, the United Kingdom; and NAFOSTED-Vietnam.

He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg and was previously a postdoc researcher at Lund University School of Economics and Management. Between 2016 and 2018 Quang worked as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Enterprise Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England,the United Kingdom.

Quang is a native Vietnamese and has spent his entire adulthood living, studying and working in the US, UK, Canada and Sweden.

A researcher on migration policies , politics and gender and migration with research and advocacy experience in Southeast Asia regions for more than 15 years. Apart from being a researcher, as an advisory member at the Asia Center, Bangkok Thailand as well as a visiting lecturer and has been a visiting researcher at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Rojan Tordhol Ezzati holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Oslo, Norway. Her PhD dissertation is about contestation over diversity in light of responses to the 22 July 2011 terror attacks in Norway. Her previous and current research mainly addresses us-and-them relations, groupness, and nationalism, as well as migrants’ sense of belonging and transnational ties to their countries of origin. She uses qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews, media document, and TV news analysis. She has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Sociology, and Migration Studies.

Daniel Faas is Professor in Sociology (full professor) and an elected Board Member at Trinity College Dublin, Convenor/Champion of the university-wide interdisciplinary research theme "Identities in Transformation", and founding Director of the MSc Comparative Social Change . His research is in the sociology of migration and consists of three interlinked strands: (1) identities and integration, (2) comparative curriculum analyses, as well as (3) religion and schooling in Ireland and Europe. He has published widely on these topics.

Emma Fàbrega is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at European Social Research Unit at the University of Barcelona. She is also a member of the research group on Gender, Identity and Diversity at the same university.
She gained her bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and her master's degree in Anthropological Research at the University of Manchester. She was awarded Cum Laude for her PhD thesis regarding identity processes, ageing, and retirement migration within British retirees communities on the coasts of Spain.

Alia Fakhry is a migration researcher with experience in migration policy in European, Middle Eastern and African contexts. She is currently working as Associate Researcher with the German Council on Foreign Relation (DGAP) where she coordinates a multi-author study on African migration policies and debates. Alia previously worked at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), UN-Habitat, UNICEF Senegal and for the Ifpo (CNRS) in Jordan and Lebanon.