Supervisors

Hassan Bousetta – University of Liège

Hassan Bousetta is a Research Associate at the University of Liège, Belgium. He joined the CEDEM at the University of Liège in February 2003. He was previously at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where he completed his Ph.D. and is a former Marie Curie Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Department of Sociology of the University of Bristol, UK. Bousetta has also collaborated in a number of consultancy projects both for private foundations, international organization, cities and city networks. He is the main researcher for CEDEM’s research focused on the Mediterranean & Islam. His areas of research include Moroccan migration dynamics, transnational practices and mobilisation among Moroccans, and processes of radicalisation among Young Muslims.

Ibrahim Awad - American University in Cairo

Hassen Boubakri – University of Sousse

Hassen Boubakri is Professor of Geography and Migration Studies at the University of Sousse (US). He is also a member of the "SYFACTE" Research Laboratory at the University of Sfax (USf). His research focuses on migration in the Mediterranean and North Africa in general in relation to its Southern (Subsaharan Africa) and Northern (EU) Neighborhoods: migration policies, Euro-Mediterranean migration, irregular migration, migration and development, etc. He is a member of the Academic Consortium of “la Nomad House” (a transnational itinerant cultural and theatre centre focused on Migration/Creative Europe), partner of the “VilMouv: Cities on the Move in the Mediterranean” Program (CNRS & French School of Rome), and an “International Fellow” at the Convergences Migrations Institute and an associate researcher at the IRMC and the Migrinter Laboratory (University of Poitiers).

Lorenzo Gabrielli - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Lorenzo Gabrielli, Ph.D. (with honors) in Political Science from LAMScience Po Bordeaux, France, is a Senior Researcher at GRITIM-UPF and a Joint Professor at the Political Science department of UPF. He is also Associate Researcher at Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux. Gabrielli’s expertise spans from migration flows, dynamics and policies to borders and rebordering. He has widely published about the external dimension of European immigration policies, the securitisation of immigration issues in Europe, internal bordering and rebordering, and racism and discrimination issues. Gabrielli has participated in several research projects, such as "REACT", "Catalunya, the Mediterranean and Abya Yala: articulating alliances and transformative youth strategies", AGREP, Vakeripen, DiasporaLink, INTERACT, GARNET, Medimurs or MIPMUE. Additionally, he has been a researcher for projects commissioned by ITC-ILO, FIERI, EUNOMAD, Oxfam Intermón and the Fundació Jaume Bofill.

Yvan Gastaut – Université Côte d’Azur

Yvan Gastaut is lecturer in History at the University of Côte d’Azur, Nice. He works in the laboratory URMIS, The Migrations and Society Research Unit, based in Nice and also in Paris VII. He is a member of the National Museum of History of Immigration in Paris Advisory Committee and also fellow in the French Institute of Migration Convergences. His main lines of research are migration in the Mediterranean area between the 19th and the 21st century, questions of representation imaginaries, sports and migration, identity, stereotypes, ‘othering’ representations, racism vs antiracism, public opinion and memory conflicts. 

Eda Gemi – University of Elbasan 

Eda Gemi is Professor at the University of Elbasan and Associate Professor at the University of New York Tirana. She is a political sociologist specializing in the governance of international migration and integration policies in Southeast Europe and the Western Balkans. She also serves as the Head of the Law Department and the Director of the ICL Master Program. Dr. Gemi is also a Research Associate at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where she previously served as the Head of the Migration Unit from 2012 to 2016. She currently serves as a migration expert at the OECD Network of International Migration Experts. Furthermore, she is an Expert Evaluator for the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission (REA). 

Ahmet İçduygu – Koç University

Ahmet İçduygu is full professor at Koç University in Istanbul, in the Department of International Relations and the Department of Sociology. He is the former Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University and the Director of the Migration Research Center at Koç (MiReKoc). He held Visiting Fellow positions at Stockholm University, the University of Warwick, the University of Manchester, and the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Malmö. He is an elected member of the Science Academy in Turkey. He conducted various research projects for international organizations such as IOM, UNHCR, EU, OECD, and ILO. He teaches on migration studies, theories, and practices of citizenship, international organizations, civil society, nationalism and ethnicity, and research methods. 

Boutaina Ismaili Idrissi – University Mohamed V Rabat

Boutaina Ismaili Idrissi holds an MBA from the University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom) and a PhD in Economics from the University of Perpignan (France) covering structural issues related to the Euro-Mediterranean region. As Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law and Economics of Agdal -University Mohammed V Rabat, she has taught about Euro-Mediterranean Relations, and is professor within the Master degree of Migration and societies. Additionally, she has conducted various consultancy missions particularly with the African Development Bank (2014), UNECA (2015) and the Arab League (2017).

Maria-Lucinda Fonseca – University of Lisbon

Maria Lucinda is is a Full Professor of Human Geography and Migration Studies at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa. She is also the coordinator of the Research Unit MIGRARE - Migration, spaces and societies at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) of the same institute as well as the Director of the PhD Program on Migration Studies at the University of Lisbon. She is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board of the IMISCOE network and of the International Steering Committee of the International Metropolis Project. She has also taken part many research projects. 

Stefania Panebianco – University of Catania

PhD in International Relations, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Catania, and Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair EUMedEA. Stefania Panebianco teaches Mediterranean Politics, Politics and Institutions in the Mediterranean, Institutions of Global Trade at the University of Catania and Migration Politics in the Mediterranean at LUISS-Rome. She was a visiting researcher at IBEI and GRITIM, at the University Pompeu Fabra. She is a co-editor of Global Affairs, and her main research interests are migration politics in the Mediterranean, EU foreign policies, EU-MENA relations, EU and democracy promotion in the MENA area. She has served for SISP, ECPR-SGIR, EISA, ECPR-SGEU Steering Committee, and is one of the EISA founding members. 

Apostolos Papadopoulos – Harokopio University

Apostolos Papadopoulos is Professor of Rural Sociology and Geography at the Department of Geography at the Harokopio University in Athens. His background in Sociology and Geography has proved to be important for addressing topics related to socio-spatial relations and economic development. He has been a member of the Working Group on Migration coordinated by the Prime Minister Office in Greece, member and Chair of the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), and Director of the Institute for Social Research, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in Greece. He has extensive experience in migration and rural development, and the connections between mobility, inequalities, integration, and spatial organization.

Ricard Zapata-Barrero – University Pompeu Fabra

Ricard Zapata is Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona-Spain), Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and of the Master in Migration Studies. He is member of the Board of Directors of the European Network IMISCOE and Chair the External Affairs Committee. He is the current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration). He is a member of editorial boards of several academic journals, and his lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, specifically the relationship between democracy, citizenship and immigration. approaches.