Experts Database

Sabah Mofidi, from Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), is a PhD graduate in Political Science and a scholar in Kurdish studies. Currently he is working on a project on the change in political identity among Kurdish immigrants in western Europe, holding a postdoctoral scholarship funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

Mohamed Munas is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Management Research of the Nijmegen School of Management, Department of Geography and Planning, Radboud University, the Netherlands. His PhD dissertation titled “Reconnections”: Complexities of diaspora engagement in Sri Lanka focuses on understanding the collective engagement of diaspora in post-war recovery. This multisited research brings the experiences and perspectives of the individuals and organisational representatives together from Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and Australia. Munas's research critically looks at diaspora-led development interactions and their outcomes on post-war societies using postdevelopment lens. Further, this research looks at how diasporic identities are mobilised to form collectives and organisations that are used as vehicles to channel developmental assistance.

Lea Molina Caminero is a social geographer (M.A. University of Osnabrück) and completed her thesis on lifestyle-oriented youth mobilities to Lisbon in 2020 at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon. Her research interests cover privileged mobility and its impact on urban and rural areas. Here she is particularly interested in inequalities in labour and mobility regimes and how these are reflected socio-spatially.

Daniel Morales holds a PhD (sociolinguistics and migration studies) and an MA in Transnational Studies by the University of Southampton, UK. He also holds a BA in English Linguistics, Translation and Literary studies by Universidad Autónoma de Queretaro, Mexico. He has been a Fulbright scholar in the United States and is a co-opted member of the International Association of Spanish in Society, an academic network that explores issues around language, globalization and migration, language policy, minority language rights, etc.
He has done research on Latin American migration to the UK where he has explored issues of language and identity and intra-group relations in the Latin American community in London. His research interests include language in society, language ideologies, language, globalization and migration. His work also incorporates different approaches of discourse studies, narrative studies as well as ethnographic methods to shed light on social inequality and exclusion from a sociolinguistic perspective.
He is also a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers by the National Council of Science and Technology.

Laura Morales is Professor in Political Science/Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, affiliated with CEE. She previously worked at the University of Leicester, the University of Manchester, the University of Murcia, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has held visiting scholar positions at the Amsterdam School for Social Research, Columbia University, Harvard University and Sciences Po Grenoble. Her research interests lie, especially, in the areas of comparative political behavior, public opinion, political parties, the politics of immigration, and comparative politics. She has published Joining Political Organisations. Institutions, Mobilisation and Participation in Western Democracies, Colchester: ECPR Press, 2009; Political Discussion in Modern Democracies in a Comparative Perspective (edited with Michael Wolf and Ken’ichi Ikeda), London: Routledge, 2010; and Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? (edited with Marco Giugni), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011; as well as a number of articles in academic international journals. She is also the Chair of the COST Action "International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network", which gathers a network of researchers from 33 countries working on improving the access, usability, dissemination and standards of the multiple and scattered survey data that exist on the economic, social and political integration of ethnic and migrant minorities. Other recent projects she has worked on include: the project LOCALMULTIDEM (funded by the 6th Framework Programme, on migrants' social capital and participation in Europe; the project Support and Opposition to Migration (funded by the 7th Framework Programme) on the politicization of migration across Europe; the Immigrant Citizens Survey (funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals and the King Baudouin Foundtion); and the project Pathways (funded by Open Research Area grant of the British ESRC, the Dutch NWO, the French ANR and the German DFG).

Dr. Madalina Moraru is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Law Faculty of the Masaryk University, Brno where she has obtained a research grant for the project on Reforming European Administrative Governance in times of crisis: Common or disjunctive sector regulatory models (EUADMIN-GOV). She is also a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Centre for Judicial Cooperation (CJC), in Florence, Italy, where she is coordinating the legal training on asylum and migration, and on the interpretation and application of the EU Charter in various EU law fields. She is the editor of Distinguished Lecture Series Papers, of the European University Institute, Centre for Judicial Cooperation.
She obtained her Doctoral Degree in Law from the European University Institute with a thesis entitled Protecting (unrepresented) EU citizens in third countries: the intertwining roles of the EU and its Member States). She has a magna cum laude LL.M. in European Law from Durham University (2008), as well as from the EUI (2010), and a LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, Bucharest (2007). Her research interests include the law and policies of EU external relations, consular and diplomatic law, fundamental rights, judicial dialogue, asylum and migration, and EU citizenship law.
She has been regularly invited to speak as expert on EU law issues by EU Institutions and international and non-governmental organisations. She has been the advisor for a Member of the European Parliament. She is also the founder of the non-governmental organisation, European Centre for Legal Expertise, which is actively participating in policy analysis and drafting in the field of human rights. She has won several EU-funded grants on fundamental rights, EU policy implementation and legal training (ACTIONES, e-Nact) She has extensive expertise in coordinating European wide projects involving research and consultancy in the field of asylum and migration and fundamental rights.
She has published extensively on the topic of the EU citizenship rights, fundament

Dr Ricard Morén-Alegret (PhD, University of Warwick, UK, 1999-2000) is Tenured Associate Professor and Researcher at the UAB Geography Department & Associate Researcher at UAB-ICTA, Spain. Among others, he was awarded two Marie Curie Research Fellowships by the European Commission DG-XII (1996-1999), a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellowship by the Spanish Government Science and Technology Ministry (2001-2006), a GCM Research Fellowship by the United Nations University, UNU (2013)...

Sayed Mahdi Mosawi is a research fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) / Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. His work draws on forced migration, refugees, and gender issues. In his current project, Mosawi deals with the notions of masculinities among male immigrants living in Germany.

Mahgol Motalebi is a doctorate student holding DAAD scholarship within the study program IPP-EU at the Institute for European Urban Studies.

Born in 1991, she studied Bachelor of Architecture in Iran; following the Cum Laude graduation in 2016 from the “Architecture and Sustainability” program at Katholieke University (KU) Leuven, Belgium. During the master studies, she joined “Media Architecture” program at Bauhaus University Weimar as a guest student where she had worked with Refugees in Weimar on art and research projects that also shaped her Master thesis and future research direction, with the focus on the social and spatial dimension of urban segregation and its influence on the integration of immigrants and refugees. SS

Since 2018, She is working on the doctorate project under the title “Immigrant’s home in the making through spatial practice: The case of Iranian immigrants in Berlin” In this research, she attempts to illustrate the current integration processes and challenges of Iranian immigrants based on their spatial practices to make Berlin their new home.