Our Fellows

Volodymyr Vakhitov

Key expertise:
Behavioural Economics
Microeconometrics
Statistics
analysis of survey data on forced migration (refugees, idps, evacuation of civilians)
analysis of perceptions and identities

Luisa Gabriela Morales Vega

Key expertise:
migration and Refugee governance focused on Mexico-U.S corridor
role of Courts in Migration Politics

Lobna Ben Salem

Key expertise:
Comparative Literature
Postcolonial studies
Mobility studies

Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova

Key expertise:
International refugee law
Asylum
Family reunification
EU law
Human rights
Border controls
Genocide, displacement and refugee law

Galina Selivanova

Key expertise:
civil society and social movements
autocratic regimes
elections and electoral monitoring
migrant activism

Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka

Key expertise:
Migration
Diaspora
Citizenship
Borders
Alternative Regional Integration and Regionalism
Civil Society and Democracy
Africa-EU Relations
Anti-Corruption and Development

Salvador Forquilha

Key expertise:
Social Cohesion
Political violence
Governance
Decentralization

Devora Neumark

Key expertise:
Trauma Studies
Neuroaesthetics

Rebecca Enobong Roberts

Key expertise:
Forced Displacement
Forced Migration
Inclusive Urbanisation
Resettlement
Local Integration
Social Cohesion
Rights to the City
Action Research
Community Engagement

Ester Nergis Canefe

Key expertise:
Forced Migration Studies
International criminal law
Administrative Law
Critical Citizenship Studies
Political Theory

Roda Siad

Key expertise:
Humanitarianism
Science and Technology Studies
Critical Data Studies
Migration Studies
Refugee governance
Communication Studies

Stella Effah

Key expertise:
Climate-induced internal displacement (IDPs) impact on social cohesion
Transnational migrants and development.
Migration and development

Basma Taysir El Doukhi

Key expertise:
Knowledge production and decolonizing research
Refugees and displacement
Politics of forced migration and integration
Participation in policymaking
Civil society and refugee-initiatives
Diaspora studies and refugees’ journeys
Intersections of displacement, humanitarianism and international development
Decolonizing research and practice and knowledge production
Lived expertise, representation, power and story-telling

Bidisha Biswas

Key expertise:
Refugee governance

Nyima Jadama

Key expertise:
Media
Migration
Project Management
Women Empowerment

Veronica Gabriel Buchumi

Key expertise:
Family Law
Child Rights and Protection
Migration and Refugee Studies

Fred Nyongesa Ikanda

Key expertise:
Refugee and forced migration
Kinship
Anthropology of Islam
Gender studies
Social cohesion in protracted refugee situations

Alfiya Lyapina

Key expertise:
refugee research
critical migration and mobility research
critical borders research
ethnography

Mohammad Nayyeri

Key expertise:
Legal theory
Law and philosophy of human rights
Immigration and asylum law
Populism

Olena Khodchenko

Key expertise:
scientific work on the history of migration processes
adaptation and integration of immigrants
Mennonites and Germans

Gizachew Teshome Haile

Key expertise:
conflict transformation
peacebuilding
refugee impacts on demographic and political dynamics
refugee-host community interaction
localization of the CRRF
migration
social cohesion between host-communities and refugees from the Global South

Ziad Alahmad

Key expertise:
Integration
Temporary protection
Transit migration
Forced migrants’ entrepreneurship

Lejla Sunagic

Key expertise:
Migration
Risk research
Qualitive methods

Ioanna Blasko

Key expertise:
Highly skilled migration
Refugee labour market integration
Refugee workplace integration
Refugee integration infrastructure in Sweden
Refugee engineers

Eline Wærp

Key expertise:
Frontex
Securitization
EU border control
Irregularized migration

Alex Tomas Fusco

Key expertise:
Refugee Camps
Borders
Social Relations and Spatial Forms
Spatial Imaginaries of Forced Migration

Lila García

Key expertise:
Migration and human rights
Migration Law
Courts
Migration control
Borders
Social rights

Abis Getachew Makuria

Key expertise:
Forced Migration
Refugee Economies
Social Cohesion
Informal Sector
Labor Market

Shaden Sabouni

Key expertise:
Tutor at the University of Oxford/ The Refugee Led Research Hub on Forced Migration Studies

Juhar Yasin Abamosa

Key expertise:
Western host countries
Refugee higher education
Refugee integration
Social inclusion and exclusion
Hidden – but intentional – prejudices as mechanisms of exclusion
Pedagogy of the Others(s)

Nur Nadia Lukmanulhakim

Mary Rose Sarausad

Key expertise:
international labour migration
forced displacement
population movements
gender and development
Urban settlements and refugees
Welfare systems and social safety nets

Michael Owiso

Key expertise:
East and Horn of Africa
Political Science
Policy Studies
Migration Studies
Security
Peace and Conflict Studies

Osama Hazzi

Key expertise:
Micro-Organizational Behavior
Migration and Integration
Human Resource Management
Sustainability
Research Methods

Daniel Mekonnen

Key expertise:
International Human Rights
International Refugee Law
Diaspora & Migration Studies

Bezen Balamir Coşkun

Key expertise:
Human security of refugees and migrants
Gender and Forced Migration
Women Peace and Security Agenda

María Gabriela Trompetero Vicent

Key expertise:
Forced migration
Migration governance
Processes of categorization of people on the move

Ayşegul Kayaoğlu

Key expertise:
Economics of migration
Gender
Labor economics
Informal institutions
Conflict

Anila Noor

Jorge Morales Cardiel

Key expertise:
Researcher of forced migration in transit through Mexico

Margaret Monyani

Gülay Kilicaslan

Key expertise:
Critical forced migration studies
Refugee law and politics of citizenship and resettlement
Nation-state and border violence
Resistance and social movements in the Global South (particularly in the Middle East)
Digital activism and culture

Palash Kamruzzaman

Key expertise:
International development
Knowledge production
Refugees and displacement
Global South
Politics of development
Participation in policymaking
Civil society and extreme poverty

Feriha Nazda Güngördü

Key expertise:
Migration studies
Refugee studies
Urban studies

Asresahegn Birhanu Gelaw

Key expertise:
refugee integration
durable solutions
refugee-host community conflict
IDP

Merve Erdilmen

Key expertise:
Refugee-led organizations
Gender
Gender equality
Refugee protection

Evan Easton-Calabria

Saniye Dedeoglu

Key expertise:
Gender
Migration
Labour

Bojana Babic

Key expertise:
Migration and refugee studies
Urban anthropology
Economic anthropology

Ayar Ata

Key expertise:
Front line migration integration consultant
adviser
advocate
linguist
freelance social researcher in England

Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah

Key expertise:
Gender intersectionality
Migrant and Refugee Health
Displacement and Climate mobilities, and Human Trafficking
Health Ethics
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Social Protection
Human Right and Sexuality Law
Social Medicine
HIV and Adolescent Health
Population and Public Health

Shaddin Almasri

Key expertise:
refugee policy differentiation
refugee labour inclusion
nationality-based aid
jordan compact

Abdirahman Ahmed

Key expertise:
forced migration, refugees, IDPs
migration policy
migration and development
diaspora studies
climate change
GS GN research collaboration and knowledge production