Experts Database

I am sociologist with an expertise in ethnic and migration studies and a co-editor of a forthcoming volume "Visual Methods in Migrations Studies" (2021, Springer, with A.Desille). I research immigrant communities in Europe (Turkey included) with use of ethnography and visual and sensory methods. In 2015-2016 I was a Marie Curie Early Stage researcher and INTEGRIM fellow hosted by Migration Research Center, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Social scientist with the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences group. I work across a number of research projects both national and international in scope, investigating rural issues. These include: demographic change and migration into and out of rural remote areas of Scotland; rural and island responses to Covid-19 in Scotland, exploring the effectiveness of digitalisation and digital tools in crofting communities in Scotland and issues of belonging and home for return migrants in southern and western counties of Ireland.

Morgiane is a Ph.D. researcher in the protection and the creation of an efficient legal framework for climate migrants.
She previously researched the consequences of gender stereotypes in Asylum claims across Europe.
She has experience in immigration law and in migrants and refugees integration.

Eva Nossem is a graduate translator for German, English and Italian. She is the scientific coordinator of the INTERREG V A project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” at Saarland University. She is an instructor in English linguistics at Saarland University and is working on her PhD project in Italian linguistics: “Un dizionario Queer – il lessico italiano della noneteronormatività”. Her research interests include Border Studies, Linguistics, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, and Translation Studies.

Karen has been researching migration, mainly using ethnographic methods, since the early 1990s. Starting with British emigration to Spain, she wrote the British on the Costa del Sol in 2000 (Routledge). She then spent several years establishing the field of lifestyle migration, and is especially known for the edited volume Lifestyle Migration: relations experiences and expectations (Ashgate 2009, ed with M. Benson). Later she has focused on employing sociological theory for broader understandings of migration processes. This work has been published in international Migration and Social Theory, (Palgrave 2012), and Lifestyle Migration and Colonial traces in Malaysia and Panama (Palgrave 2018, with M. Benson).

Karen’s main contribution to migration studies has been to advocate the telling of practice stories to elucidate the structural and agentic aspects of migration processes and how these interrelate over time. This has informed much of her work, including the recently published International Labour migration to Europe’s Rural Regions (Routledge 2021, ed with J.F. Rye).

Research Fellow, Northumbria University (UK), University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

I am a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, with a specialisation in Migration Studies. My research interests include return migration, (re)integration, transnationalism and community dynamics. I am an experienced migration researcher with a focus on Afghanistan - including fieldwork with Afghan migrants, refugees and returnees in Afghanistan, India, UK, Norway and the USA.

Pedro J. Oiarzabal was born and raised in Bilbao and has spent much of his life between the Basque Country, Ireland and the United States. He holds a PhD in Basque Studies-Political Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, a MPhil in Economics and Social Sciences from Queen's University of Belfast (N. Ireland), and BA in History from the University of Deusto (Bilbao). He is currently the Director of Social Innovation Research at Arima Social Lab (Bilbao). For nine years he had been a PhD Researcher on Migration Studies at the Human Rights Institute, University of Deusto, and also the Jon Bilbao Research Fellow on the Basque Diaspora, 2014-2016, at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research examines diaspora communities interaction with information and communication technologies, with particular emphasis on the Basque case.