Experts Database

I am an early career researcher working in the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre at Monash University, Australia, and the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. My research focuses on the intersections of digital media, belonging, migration and refugee studies, and digital and social inclusion.

Benedicte Brahic is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University where she co-convenes the Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies (MIGS) research group - https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/rcass/groups/migration-….
Her research interests concern the intersections of gender, migration and, bordering. Her recent published work explores the impact of uncertain migratory contexts and citizenship status on migrant families.

Laura Brody is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie fellow participating in the European Joint
Doctorate ‘MOVES’: Migration and Modernity – Historical and Cultural Challenges’
at Charles University and Paul-Valery University. Previously, she received an M.A. in International Migration from the University of Kent and a B.A. in International Comparative Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on issues of forced migration, nationalism, memory, identity and belonging in the Balkans/Eastern Mediterranean.

Elena Bulakh is currently a Russian language lecturer at SOCIUS-ISEG (Lisbon University). She is also a PhD student at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL) of University of Lisbon. Her current research project is devoted to a new wave of the Russian migration to Portugal (1991-2017) with a special focus on networks, transnationalism, and migrants' identity.

I am a human geographer focusing on social and development geography in the global south. In my work I focus on issues related to social inequalities, human-technology-relations, human-environment-relations, and social resilience in the context of globalisation. I am particularly interested in the diversifying patterns of mobilities and migration as well as digital transformations in the global south. My theoretical approach is, among others, inspired by Bourdieu's theory of practice, the new mobilities paradigm, as well as debates on translocality, transnationalism, and social resilience. In my point of view good geographical research should not only be theoretically profound but also empirically grounded. There is no good theory without proper and profound empirical research and vice versa.
I studied geography, development economics, and anthropology at the University of Bonn and focused in my PhD research on migration and translocal dimensions of social resilience in gendered migration systems. I very much appreciate working with Mixed-Methods and Multi-sited Ethnography and have worked for many years in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore, and Germany.

Muhip Caglidil is a migration researcher and data collection expert with experience in humanitarian aid and emergency operations. Caglidil specializes in data collection solutions in hard-to-reach areas and conducting rapid needs assessments. Caglidil holds an M.A degree in International Relations from Central European University and previously worked at International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save The Children International in Germany, Turkey and Iraq.

I am a PhD student of the doctoral programme in «Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions» within Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) of the University of Padua in Italy. My PhD research project entitled «Transnational belongings and mobility paths: the migratory careers of Tunisian people in Italy», aims at understanding the factors influencing the establishment and maintenance of transnational relationships along the migratory pathways and the weight of identity issues in this complex. In this light I have conducted multi-sited research in Northern and Southern Italy, delving into the contextual-driven differences influencing transnationality.