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.

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.

Samir Djelti

Institutional affiliation:
- Lecturer of Economic Geography at the University of Mustapha Stambouli Mascara (Algeria).
- Associate researcher at CREAD, Alger (Algeria).
Research keywords: History of Mediterranean migration, Human migration, osmosis theory, labour migration, migration and development, migration and entrepreneurship.

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.

Carmen Geha

Institutional affiliation:
- Associate Professor of Public Administration and Leadership at the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Research keywords: Middle East, Refugees, Lebanon, Diaspora, Migrants activism

Mohsen Manouchehri

Institutional affiliation:
- PhD student at GRITIM-UPF (Catalonia, Spain).
Research keywords: Climate change-induced migration, immigration policy, resiliency of cities and migration.

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.

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.

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.

Juan Carlos Triviño

Institutional affiliation:
- Postdoctoral research fellow at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (Catalonia, Spain)
- Senior researcher at GRITIM-UPF.
Personal web
Research keywords: Cities of migration, cities of refuge, local governance, political participation, public policy.

Gerasimos Tsourapas

Institutional affiliation:
- Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
- Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies Harvard (USA).
Research keywords: Diaspora, emigration politics, Gulf Cooperation Council migration policies, Middle East and North Africa.

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.