Members

Birce Altiok

Institutional affiliation:
- MiReKoc Coordinator, Koç University, Istanbul (Turkey).
Research keywords: Afghan and Syrian refugees, forced migration, integration, Mediterranean migration, return, Turkey.

Mauricio Ambrosini

Institutional affiliation:
- Professor of Sociology of Migration at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan (Italy).
Research keywords: Immigration policies, immigrant self-employment, Irregular immigration, migrant labour markets, refugees.

Gemma Aubarell Solduga

Institutional affiliation:
- Head of Mediterranean Relations and European Networks Service. Ministry for Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency at the Government of Catalonia, (Catalonia, Spain).
Research keywords: Euromed Migration Policies, Intercultural citizenship, migration governance and regional and local actors, regional cooperation.

Franz Burh

Institutional affiliation:
- Researcher at Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
Research keywords: Infrastructures, navigation, urban change, urban mobilities.

Lila Chabane

Institutional affiliation:
- Senior Researcher at Applied Economics Center for Development (CREAD), Algiers, Algeria
Research keywords: urban mobilities, governance of public services.

Amandine Desille

Institutional affiliation:
- Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
Personal web
Research keywords: Diversity policies, Israel, periphery, Portugal, return migration.

Alina Esteves

Institutional affiliation:
- Researcher at Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
Research keywords: Intra-Mediterranean migration, highly-skilled migration, Mediterranean rural areas.

Lorenzo Gabrielli

Institutional affiliation:
- Senior Researcher at GRITIM-UPF and Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalonia, Spain).
Research keywords: Bordering, externalisation, geopolitics of human mobility, migration policies, migration and development.

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Institutional affiliation:
- Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), (Norway)
- Co-Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS)
Research keywords: borders, mobility, peacekeeping, refugees, humanitarianism, security.

Iván Martín

Institutional affiliation:
- Associate Researcher at GRITIM-UPF (Catalonia, Spain)
- Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (Morocco).
Research keywords: African migrations, Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, Maghreb migration policies, Mediterranean labor migration, protection of vulnerable migrants in Maghreb countries.

Jenniffer McGarrigle

Institutional affiliation:
- Researcher at Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
Research keywords: Internal migration/ residential mobility, International migration, lifestyle mobilities, urban segregation.

Sílvia Morgades

Institutional affiliation:
- Senior Lecturer, Serra Hunter Fellow, International Public Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalonia, Spain).
Research keywords: Forced migrations, International and European Refugee Law, International and European Migration Law.

Saib Musette

Institutional affiliation:
- Research Director of the Research Division “Human Development and Social Economy” at the Applied Econonomic Center for Development in Algiers (CREAD)
Research keywords: cross-border informality, return migration, brain drain, student mobility, Algeria.

Maissam Nimer

Institutional affiliation: Postdoctoral researcher at Paris Nanterre University, Labex PasP (France).
Personal web
Research keywords: Civil society, education, forced migration, gender, humanitarian assistance, labour.

Stefania Panebianco

Institutional afiliation:
- Chair Holder at Jean Monnet Chair EUMEDEA (Italy)
- Associate professor at Università Degli Studi Di Catania.
Research keywords: Euro-Mediterranean relations, EU politics, human security, international practices, Mediterranean migration, Mediterranean cities.

Peter Scholten

Institutional affiliation: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Professor of Migration and Diversity Management at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology
Research keywords: migration, diversity governance, multi-level governance, comparative public policy.

Karolina Sobczak-Szelc

Institutional affiliation:
- Assistant Professor at Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw (Poland).
Research keywords: Adaptation strategies to environmental limitations, environmental migration, forced migration, North Africa.

Paul Tabar

Institutional affiliation: Lebanese American University (Lebanon) and Western Sydney University (Australia).
Research keywords: Diaspora-home relationship, migration and nation-building, racism and migration.

Gerasimos Tsourapas

Institutional affiliation:
- Professor of International Relations, University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
- Non-Resident Research Fellow, Migration Programme – Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (Greece)
Research keywords: Migration diplomacy, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, refugee rent, emigration policymaking.

Ayselin Yıldız

Institutional affiliation:
- Associate Professor at Yaşar University Department of International Relations.
- UNESCO Chair on International Migration (Turkey).
Research keywords: Externalisation, irregular migration, migrant smuggling, readmission, sea border controls in the Mediterranean, skills recognition, Turkey.

Ayman Zohry

Position: PhD, Expert on Population and Migration Studies based in Cairo (Egypt).
Personal web
Research keywords: Egypt, internal migration, international migration, irregular migration, labor migration, migration policies, migration statistics, population studies.