Experts Database

Anniek Schlette is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on dual ethnic identity, ascriptions of ethnic belonging and intergroup relations. She is part of the ICS graduate school and The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). She obtained her Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University, and subsequently completed the 2-year Research Master in Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (MERM, UU). From 2021 to 2022 she was a junior researcher at the Dutch Institute of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), where she conducted research on polarization and online communities.

Dr. Andrea Schmelz holds a professorship in International Social Work and Global Development at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. After her studies in Political Science, Sociology and Modern History and her Ph.D. at Berlin Humboldt University, she has been working for more than two decades in politics and civil society engagement in the fields of migration, education and social issues as well as in international relations and international development cooperation.

Samuel David Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Political Science Department at the University of Lucerne. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of migration, citizenship, and democracy.

Doctoral Candidate at the University of Passau (Germany) in Cooperation with OTH Regensburg (Germany). Member of the Bavarian Joint Academic Partnership "Social Change" of the Bavarian Academic Forum (BayWISS).

Since 2019: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts. Research Interests: Discourses about integration and migration in different contexts and medial settings.

I am a migration researcher and humanitarian practitioner with over a decade of experience in generating and disseminating research, strengthening capacities, and monitoring and evaluating interventions in contexts of migration and displacement. As a PhD fellow at Maastricht University-UNU MERIT, I explore the im/mobility aspirations of young people in protracted displacement. My research interests are migration drivers; migration aspirations and decision-making; and migration policy and governance. I have extensively worked in the MENA region, and I speak five languages.

Hanne Schneider is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the human geography department at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Her research interest include migration studies in Local and Rural contexts as well as European Migration Governace. Before joining the research team at TUC Hanne Schneider worked as a Research Associate at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) after she has gained experience in non-profit project management at Robert-Bosch-Foundation. She received her M.A. in International Migration from the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) in Osnabrück.

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Universität Osnabrück. He studied Anthropology, Musicology, Linguistics and Ethnic Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Universität Tübingen. After a two-year research stay at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro he became coordinator of a major European comparative research project at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His major recent publications include “Demographic ‘Megatrends’ and Their Implications” (in: Siirtolaisuus/Migration Journal 3/2018: 26-31); Erfolg nicht vorgesehen. Sozialer Aufstieg in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft – und was ihn so schwer macht (Münster: Waxmann 2018; with C. Lang and A. Pott); “Generation Mix – der Versuch einer Annäherung” (in: M.Hill/E. Yildiz (eds.): Postmigrantische Visionen, Bielefeld: transcript, 129-146); Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2016 (edited with Clea Schmidt); “Social Mobility, Habitus and Identity Formation in the Turkish-German Second Generation” (in: New Diversities, Vol. 16, No. 1/2014: 89-105; with Christine Lang); Super-diversity: A New Perspective on Integration, Amsterdam: VU University Press 2013 (with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? Amsterdam University Press 2012 (edited with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); “Belonging” (in: M. Crul/J. Mollenkopf (eds.): The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States, New York: Russell Sage 2012, 206-32; with Mary Waters, Leo Chavez und Louis de Scipio).