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Jean Edwidge Petit-frère is currently finishing a master’s degree in International Migrations with a focus on actors and institutions of migration, reception, and international solidarity in France. He is the Head of Research at The HAITI Migration group, an organization whose mission is to contributes to better migration policy development in Haiti.

Migration and Asylum Senior Expert, her fields of interest include external and internal dimensions of the EU's migration and asylum policies and forced migrations triggered by protracted humanitarian crises, weak governance and under-development.
Ph.D. in Development Geography (2009), graduated with mention in Political Science (2003), she has been working in the field of migration and asylum since 2005.
Her progressive professional experience includes academic research, policy-oriented analysis, and interventions’ design, planning, management and monitoring in the field of vulnerable migrant groups (mainly UAMs and THB survivors and, recently, persons with mental disorder) and related protection and reception issues.
In EASO (European Asylum Support Office) since January 2019, she is currently Quality Assurance Officer on Reception and Special Needs (UAMs, THB).
Previous service includes International Organizations (OSCE, FAO), NGOs (Save the Children, CIES and others), Universities (Sapienza University of Rome, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University),Think Tanks (The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, FIERI), and Governmental Institutions (Ministry of Labor and Social Policy-DG Migration and Integration Policies).
Research Associate at the Unesco Chair in Population, Migration and Development (Rome Chapter), as an adjunct professor she has also taught Crisis Prevention and Management, Geopolitics and Analysis of Migratory Flows.

My research examines how time and temporalities of migration are expressed and experienced among people who have sought asylum under the 'temporary' asylum law in Sweden, later made permanent. This includes individuals who are still in the asylum process as well as individuals who have temporary protection. Within this, I study time as an exertion of power, and how such power is experienced, organised and negotiated among those affected by the politics of asylum.

I'm working on my interdisciplinary PhD about ageing, migration, sense of home, subjective well-being & diversity-sensitive housing design.