Experts Database

Faime Alpagu studied Sociology in Istanbul and Vienna. Her dissertation project was funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and she received the 2016 Dissertation Award for Research on Migration from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research has been further supported by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften and City of Vienna.

Tunay Altay is a PhD candidate in Humboldt University’s Department of Diversity and Social Conflict. His research and teaching focuses on race critical theories, immigration, gender and sexuality. As part of his cumulative dissertation, Tunay is working on the historical, socio-economic, and institutional factors that affect the lives of marginalized people and how they respond to discrimination, stigmatization in Germany. His previous work involved qualitative studies of the experiences of LGBTQ immigrant groups and Bulgarian sex workers in Berlin. His research has been supported by the DAAD, DeZIM, Heinrich Böll Sitftung, and Humboldt University's Institute for Social Sciences, among others. In addition, Tunay writes cultural commentaries about politics, popular culture, and activism in Germany and Turkey. He is a board member of the European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA).

Roberta Altin is associate professor of cultural anthropology at the Department of Humanities, University of Trieste (Italy). Her research has mainly focused on transantional migrations, refugees studies and intercultural education. She is the coordinator of CIMCS – Centre for Migration & International Cooperation on Sustainable Development, University of Trieste.

Elisa Alves holds a PhD in Migration Studies (IGOT - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon). Between 2016-2019 she was member of the IMISCOE PhD Network, and co-coordinator of the Workshop Group.

She holds a Master's in Education and Society (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon), a Master's in Economics and Public Policy (ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management - University of Lisbon), and a Degree in Political Science and International Relations (Catholic University of Portugal).

In the past years, she has collaborated with the European Migration Network and the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service in several studies on the Portuguese case, as consultant and author. Has also participated in several research projects at CIES - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE, in particular on education and higher education.

Her main interests are international students and mobility, public policies on education, migration and integration.

I hold a PhD in Cultural Studies (University of Minho, Portugal), and master's and bachelor's degrees in Psychology (Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil). I was a postdoctoral fellow at UFES/Brazil. Currently, I am a Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) at University of Lille/France and a collaborating researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS)/University of Minho, where I am a team member of the project "Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures" (MigraMediaActs, FCT, 2022-2025). I collaborated on the project COST Action IS 1205: 'Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union', and I was a researcher at the Network of Studies and Research in Social Psychology (REDEPSO)/Brazil. I have experience in the fields of Social Psychology and Cultural Studies, with an emphasis on identity processes, intergroup relations, and socio-cultural practices. My research interests include: migration, intercultural communication, minority groups, prejudice, discrimination, social inequality, social representations, social memory, Latin America, and decolonial thinking.

Associate Professor of Demography at the Faculty of Economics and affiliated to the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance -Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a PhD in Demography and Economics (2006) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She has been working since more than 10 years on international migration, with special attention to migrants’ integration, migration policies and demographic behavior of migrant populations.

Livio Amigoni is PhD candidate at the Social Science Department (DISFOR), curriculum Migration and Intercultural Relations, of the University of Genoa. He is actually developing an ethnographic work on Sudanese forced migration focusing on factors driving high-risk migration pathway and support networks to the journeys. He is part of the solidarity network Progetto20K active since 2016 in the Ventimiglia border area and in the project Eufemia Info&Legal Point.

I have a master's degree in economics and geography at Abderahmane Mira University in Bejaia, Algeria. Currently, I am a doctoral student in the same specialty at the same university. I am working as part of my doctoral thesis on the international migration of highly qualified scientists.