Experts Database

Farkas Marcell is a PhD student at the University of Pécs’s Doctoral School of Earth Sciences in Hungary as well as an intern at the Obiten institute of the University of La Laguna, Spain. His doctoral research focuses on the spatial differences of forced migration in the Mediterranean region.

A young professional in the space of migration and refugee rights in South Asia. Been working with UN & other NGOs for almost 4 years in the International Development sector in India as well as briefly at The Hague and Geneva. Currently based in Delhi working with a UK based INGO and running on a volunteer basis India operations of Peacebuilding Projects as well as representing South and Central Asia as as regional focal point for UNMGCY Humanitarian Affairs working group. IHEID Geneva alumni of Masters in International Affairs. Areas of expertise Management, Qualitative Research ,Communciations & Writing,Program design and Advocacy

James Farrer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. His research focuses on the contact zones of global cities, including ethnographic studies of sexuality, nightlife, expatriate communities, and urban food cultures. Recent publications include The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries and Politics (with David Wank eds.), International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders, Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City (with Andrew Field), and Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones (ed.). Originally from the United States, he completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Doctorant sur "les logiques de la gouvernance migratoire au Sénégal "dans le cadre d'une cotutelle entre l'Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar(Sénégal) et l'Université Internationale de Rabat (Maroc),
Sous la codirection du Pr Ismaïla Madior FALL, Professeur titulaire des facultés de droit et de Science politique et du Pr Jean Noël FERRIE , Doyen de Sciences-Pô Rabat;
Tuteur au Pole SEJA, Spécialité Science politique de l'Université Virtuelle du Sénégal (2019-2020);
Membre du comité de chercheurs de l'OMIRAS (Observatoire sur les Migrations, l'Asile et l'Apatridie);
Évaluateur Émergent de l'Association Sénégalaise d’Évaluation (SenEval).

Luisa Faustini Torres is a Margarita Salas Post-doc researcher at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her PhD research focused on the nexus between EU external migration policies and the democratization of countries in the Southern Mediterranean neighbourhood. Her main research interests are migration politics and policies and their relations with processes of autocratization / democratization in the Euro-Mediterranean region and beyond. She is particularly interested in policy analysis and qualitative research methods (content and text analysis with CAQDAS) as well as discussions on ethics and challenges of conducting field work in authoritarian contexts and over sensitive topics.

Irina is a PhD candidate at the Law School of Tilburg University, Netherlands. She holds a M.A. in European Global Studies with a research focus on migration, peace and conflict from the University of Basel, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Zurich. Her doctoral project investigates the crime-migration nexus in mobility-gatekeeping at external EU borders in Croatia, addressing border violence and the facilitation of clandestine human mobility across borders. The research is at the juncture of EU migration law and policy, criminal law, and border criminology. It builds on theoretical frameworks such as crimmigration, anti-policy, state crime, and critical theory, combining legal, political, and ethnographic theories, methods, and data sources.

Mianmian Fei is an incoming Ph.D. student in Educational Studies with a focus on Higher Education and Student Affairs at the Ohio State Univerisity in the United States. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from the Geneva Graduate Institute as a Hans Wilsdorf Scholar. During her studies in Switzerland, Mianmian also worked as a Consultant at the UNESCO International Bureau of Education.

Astrid M. Fellner is Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, Germany. She is Co-Speaker in the German Research foundation and Canadian Social Science Foundation-funded interdisciplinary International Graduate Research Training Program “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Space” that Saarland University and University of Trier are conducting with the Université de Montréal. She is also Project Leader of the EU-funded INTERREG Großregion VA-Project “University of the Greater Region Center for Border Studies” at Saarland U and is Action Coordinator of a trilingual Border Glossary, a handbook of 40 key terms in Border Studies. She has been involved in a DAAD-Eastpartnership project with Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv on the topic of “Bridging Borders” since 2014. Since April 2021 she has also been a member of the interdisciplinary BMBF-project “Linking Borderlands,” in which she studies border films and industrial culture of the Greater Region in comparison with the German/Polish border.
Her publications include Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-Representation (2002), Bodily Sensations: The Female Body in Late-Eighteenth-Century American Culture (forthcoming) and several edited volumes and articles in the fields of Border Studies, U.S. Latino/a literature, Post-Revolutionary American Literature, Canadian literature, Indigenous Studies, Gender/Queer Studies, and Cultural Studies.