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In partnership with IMISCOE’s Migration Research Hub, this database provides access to a range of migration experts from around the world. The academics and researchers registered with IMISCOE contribute their publications and expertise to further innovation in the field of migration studies, bringing knowledge on a range of topics related to the Global Compact for Migration. Links to their research are provided in their profiles. Search the database below by expertise and location to find an expert and review their latest work. Sign-in to contact an expert directly.

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Austrian Academy of Sciences
Mari Curie Senior Researcher
Wien

Hooshmand Alizadeh received PhD degree in urban design from Newcastle University, UK in 2006. He is associate professor at the University of Kurdistan and senior postdoc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has more than fifteen years’ experience of teaching and research in Urban Studies, particularly dealing with different aspects of urbanism in general and public space in particular. The most important scholarly achievement is the development of the concept of Kurdish city in general and the concept of women’s spatiality based on the extent of their interactions with and empowerment from public spaces in his new research project (was funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2019) defined based on a comparative study in different urban contexts of Middle East and Europe.

  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Mari Curie Senior Researcher
    Wien

Hooshmand Alizadeh received PhD degree in urban design from Newcastle University, UK in 2006. He is associate professor at the University of Kurdistan and senior postdoc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has more than fifteen years’ experience of teaching and research in Urban Studies, particularly dealing with different aspects of urbanism in general and public space in particular. The most important scholarly achievement is the development of the concept of Kurdish city in general and the concept of women’s spatiality based on the extent of their interactions with and empowerment from public spaces in his new research project (was funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2019) defined based on a comparative study in different urban contexts of Middle East and Europe.

Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient
Researcher
Berlin

Hilal Alkan is a researcher based at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. She completed her PhD at the Open University, UK. She conducted extensive ethnographic research with informal neighborhood organizations providing initial assistance to migrants and refugees in Istanbul. In another project she worked with Syrian refugees who lived in Turkey and then fled to Germany to comparatively understand the two migration contexts from the viewpoint of refugees themselves. Most recently, she is working on multispecies care in contexts of displacement and migration, with a particular focus on plants.

  • Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient
    Researcher
    Berlin
  • Alice Salomon Hochschule
    Lecturer
    Berlin

Hilal Alkan is a researcher based at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. She completed her PhD at the Open University, UK. She conducted extensive ethnographic research with informal neighborhood organizations providing initial assistance to migrants and refugees in Istanbul. In another project she worked with Syrian refugees who lived in Turkey and then fled to Germany to comparatively understand the two migration contexts from the viewpoint of refugees themselves. Most recently, she is working on multispecies care in contexts of displacement and migration, with a particular focus on plants.

King's College London
Graduate Teaching Assistant
London

Jean Allegrini is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science from University College London (UCL) and an independent researcher using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Jean specialises on the governance of divided societies at the local level in the Levant (especially Lebanon), Mediterranean, and Central Asia. He focuses on the power strategies possessed by clientelist elites to perpetuate their domination at times of migratory crisis. Jean advises governments and think-tanks on Levantine affairs.

  • King's College London
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    London
  • University College London
    Postgraduate teaching assistant
    London

Jean Allegrini is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science from University College London (UCL) and an independent researcher using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Jean specialises on the governance of divided societies at the local level in the Levant (especially Lebanon), Mediterranean, and Central Asia. He focuses on the power strategies possessed by clientelist elites to perpetuate their domination at times of migratory crisis. Jean advises governments and think-tanks on Levantine affairs.

OIM
Consultant
Brasília

Magali N. Alloatti is a consultant for IOM Brazil, worked as an analyist for the UNDP (2023), as an Officer for Political Relations at Global Affairs Canada (2022) and it has been an associated researcher at the State Observatory for Migrations (SC) since 2013. She was postdoctoral fellow CAPES DAAD at Hamburg University (2019-2020) and previously a postdoctoral fellow at the State Observatory for Migrations in Santa Catarina at the Laboratory for Gender and Family relations (UDESC) (2018-2019). Her work has been published at Gender, Work & Organization, Sociologia Política, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Andvances in Gender Research, among others. She has recently joined the Standing Committee Immigration, Immigrants and Labour Markets in Europe (IMISCOE)
She was invited as an expert panelist by the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (Florence) (2020); also as an international lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University (2020), an as International Guest Professor at the sociology department in Bielefeld University teaching on international migration, ethnic economy, gender, race and ethnicity (2017). Has been invited to conferences organized by the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) (2018,2021, 2022) and at the BGHS in Bielefeld. She was also a scholarship recepient from Women Deliver as a gender advocate participating at the conference in Vancouver in 2019.
She graduated in sociology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, in 2010; got her master’s degree in 2013 and her PhD in sociology in 2017, both at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Her PhD was obtain in collaboration with University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at the Sociology Department and The Center for the Study of International Migration during 2015- 2016 with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

  • OIM
    Consultant
    Brasília
  • UNDP
    Analyst
    New York
  • State Observatory for Migrations (SC)
    Associated Researcher
    Florianopolis

Magali N. Alloatti is a consultant for IOM Brazil, worked as an analyist for the UNDP (2023), as an Officer for Political Relations at Global Affairs Canada (2022) and it has been an associated researcher at the State Observatory for Migrations (SC) since 2013. She was postdoctoral fellow CAPES DAAD at Hamburg University (2019-2020) and previously a postdoctoral fellow at the State Observatory for Migrations in Santa Catarina at the Laboratory for Gender and Family relations (UDESC) (2018-2019). Her work has been published at Gender, Work & Organization, Sociologia Política, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Andvances in Gender Research, among others. She has recently joined the Standing Committee Immigration, Immigrants and Labour Markets in Europe (IMISCOE)
She was invited as an expert panelist by the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (Florence) (2020); also as an international lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University (2020), an as International Guest Professor at the sociology department in Bielefeld University teaching on international migration, ethnic economy, gender, race and ethnicity (2017). Has been invited to conferences organized by the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) (2018,2021, 2022) and at the BGHS in Bielefeld. She was also a scholarship recepient from Women Deliver as a gender advocate participating at the conference in Vancouver in 2019.
She graduated in sociology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, in 2010; got her master’s degree in 2013 and her PhD in sociology in 2017, both at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Her PhD was obtain in collaboration with University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at the Sociology Department and The Center for the Study of International Migration during 2015- 2016 with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Singapore

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in migration sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. I am also affiliated with Georgetown University Qatar, as a visiting Scholar in Residence. My work focuses on migration politics, diversity management and citizenship regimes in the ArabGulf states, with a particular focus on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) & Saudi Arabia. My postdoctoral research examines the professional pathways of long-term (Arab and South Asian) ‘expats’ in Qatar, in particular those with middle-class backgrounds, and the ways in which they navigate differential inclusion, semi-enforced temporality, and infra-national belonging.

I hold a joint PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium). My doctoral work addressed the labor migration of highly-skilled EU nationals with second-generation, Maghrebi-Muslim backgrounds engaging in alternative social mobilities by moving overseas.

One of my longstanding research foci is the social, cultural, and economic development of the Gulf Arab states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the energy-rich Persian Gulf region. My broader research interests include the anthropology of migration, labour sociology, global cities, ethnography of the state, skilled and white-collar work, social mobility and transnational class making, the political economy of race, political Islam, sectarianism, and energy politics in Europe and the larger Middle East.

My work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Mobilities, Middle East Critique, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, and Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

Contact: Jaafar.alloul@ntu.edu.sg

  • Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Singapore

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in migration sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. I am also affiliated with Georgetown University Qatar, as a visiting Scholar in Residence. My work focuses on migration politics, diversity management and citizenship regimes in the ArabGulf states, with a particular focus on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) & Saudi Arabia. My postdoctoral research examines the professional pathways of long-term (Arab and South Asian) ‘expats’ in Qatar, in particular those with middle-class backgrounds, and the ways in which they navigate differential inclusion, semi-enforced temporality, and infra-national belonging.

I hold a joint PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium). My doctoral work addressed the labor migration of highly-skilled EU nationals with second-generation, Maghrebi-Muslim backgrounds engaging in alternative social mobilities by moving overseas.

One of my longstanding research foci is the social, cultural, and economic development of the Gulf Arab states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the energy-rich Persian Gulf region. My broader research interests include the anthropology of migration, labour sociology, global cities, ethnography of the state, skilled and white-collar work, social mobility and transnational class making, the political economy of race, political Islam, sectarianism, and energy politics in Europe and the larger Middle East.

My work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Mobilities, Middle East Critique, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, and Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

Contact: Jaafar.alloul@ntu.edu.sg

School of Medicine, University of Bristol
Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Health
Bristol

Dr Sajida Zareen Ally is Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Health at the University of Bristol and a Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of social, medical and political anthropology with a focus on South Asian migration to the Arab Gulf, and global public health. Sajida is interested in the phenomenological and socio-cultural dimensions of migrant illness/wellness experience, migrants’ health-related entitlements, and the transnational governance of labour migration and healthcare, particularly in Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Her current research is supported by REALM (Research & Empirical Analysis of Labour Migration) – a project led by INCITE, Columbia University and funded by New York Univeristy-Abu Dhabi.

  • School of Medicine, University of Bristol
    Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Health
    Bristol
  • School of Global Studies, Universtity of Sussex
    Research Associate
    Falmer, Brighton

Dr Sajida Zareen Ally is Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Health at the University of Bristol and a Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of social, medical and political anthropology with a focus on South Asian migration to the Arab Gulf, and global public health. Sajida is interested in the phenomenological and socio-cultural dimensions of migrant illness/wellness experience, migrants’ health-related entitlements, and the transnational governance of labour migration and healthcare, particularly in Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Her current research is supported by REALM (Research & Empirical Analysis of Labour Migration) – a project led by INCITE, Columbia University and funded by New York Univeristy-Abu Dhabi.

Danube University Krems
PhD Candidate
Krems an der Donau

Shaddin Almasri is a Jordanian-American PhD candidate based in Krems, Austria. Her research interests are in aid policy, development, and refugee labor integration with a regional focus on the Middle East. Previously, she held research and advocacy roles at Oxfam in Jordan and at the WANA Institute, a local Jordanian thinktank. She holds an MSc Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London and a BA Economics from the American University of Sharjah. She has held a variety of roles in short term research projects spanning topics such as climate migration, refugee discrimination, stratification in labor migration policy and refugee access to self-reliance mechanisms. .She is currently a PhD Migration Studies candidate at Danube University Krems, where she is conducting research on nationality-based discrimination in refugee aid and inclusion policies across Jordan, Turkey and Ethiopia.

  • Danube University Krems
    PhD Candidate
    Krems an der Donau

Shaddin Almasri is a Jordanian-American PhD candidate based in Krems, Austria. Her research interests are in aid policy, development, and refugee labor integration with a regional focus on the Middle East. Previously, she held research and advocacy roles at Oxfam in Jordan and at the WANA Institute, a local Jordanian thinktank. She holds an MSc Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London and a BA Economics from the American University of Sharjah. She has held a variety of roles in short term research projects spanning topics such as climate migration, refugee discrimination, stratification in labor migration policy and refugee access to self-reliance mechanisms. .She is currently a PhD Migration Studies candidate at Danube University Krems, where she is conducting research on nationality-based discrimination in refugee aid and inclusion policies across Jordan, Turkey and Ethiopia.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Postdoc
Brussels

Silvia Almenara Niebla works as postdoctoral researcher at Communication Studies Department (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). She works on the ERC project Reel Borders lead by prof. Kevin Smets. She obtained her PhD in gender and migration studies (Universidad de La Laguna, 2020, extraordinary doctoral prize) with a study on transnational belonging and media practices among Sahrawi refugees from a gender perspective. She is vice-chair of the Diaspora, Migration and the Media section of ECREA.

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Postdoc
    Brussels

Silvia Almenara Niebla works as postdoctoral researcher at Communication Studies Department (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). She works on the ERC project Reel Borders lead by prof. Kevin Smets. She obtained her PhD in gender and migration studies (Universidad de La Laguna, 2020, extraordinary doctoral prize) with a study on transnational belonging and media practices among Sahrawi refugees from a gender perspective. She is vice-chair of the Diaspora, Migration and the Media section of ECREA.

Universität Wien
Wien

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.

  • Universität Wien
    Wien

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.

Human Rights Centre
Senior Researcher
Ghent

Jill Alpes is a legal anthropologist working on migration from the perspectives of aspiring and deported migrants in the Global South. Based at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University, her current project looks at the work of lawyers and activists in producing and submitting evidence on pushbacks to the European Court of Human Rights. Jill is the author of "Abroad at any cost: Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa" and has published widely in the Journal of Refugee Studies, JEMS, REMI, PoLAR, Africa, Social and Legal Studies and Autrepart.

  • Human Rights Centre
    Senior Researcher
    Ghent
  • Ghent University
    Senior Researcher
    Ghent
  • University of Utrecht
    Researcher
    utrecht
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Post-doctoral researcher
    Amsterdam
  • Centre for International Relations
    Visiting Fellow
    Paris
  • Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
    Post- doctoral Fellow
    Berlin
  • Danish Institute for International Studies
    Visiting Fellow
    Copenhagen

Jill Alpes is a legal anthropologist working on migration from the perspectives of aspiring and deported migrants in the Global South. Based at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University, her current project looks at the work of lawyers and activists in producing and submitting evidence on pushbacks to the European Court of Human Rights. Jill is the author of "Abroad at any cost: Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa" and has published widely in the Journal of Refugee Studies, JEMS, REMI, PoLAR, Africa, Social and Legal Studies and Autrepart.

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