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Research visits and guest scholars at IMIS 2023/24
Priscila de Alantino Braz Silva
Social Sciences
PhD topic: " Educational Policies in Brazil and Colombia and their Role in Welcoming and Socializing Indigenous Migrants"
Supervisor: Dr. Jens Schneider
at IMIS: 16.9.2024-28.2.2025
room 03/322
Nergis Canefe
Social and Political Thought, International Criminal Law
York University, CA
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS: 15 September - 15 November 2024
room 03/325
Research Project: "Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Notes from Borderlands"
Contact: ncanefe@yorku.ca
More Info: https://ffvt.net/de/fellowship/our-fellows/ester-nergis-canefe
Alfiya Lyapina
Sociology, Conflict and Peace Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 1 Mai - 31 July 2024
room 03/325
Research Project: Balancing between legal statuses: Syrian migration to Russia and agency in survival migration
Contact: lyapina@wisc.edu
More info: https://ffvt.net/en/fellowship/our-fellows/
Olena Khodchenko
History
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 1 Apr- 31 May 2024
room 03/325
Research Project: Diasporas and Ethnic Groups in Ukraine and their Migrant History
Contact: khodchenkoolena@gmail.com
More info: https://ffvt.net/en/fellowship/our-fellows
Ziad Alahmad
Urban Studies, Peace Studies, Global Studies
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 1 Feb- 31 March 2024
room 03/326
Research Project: Levelling up the Discussion on Forced Immigrants Integration: Findings from Quantitative Research on Turkey
Contact: ziad88ahmad@gmail.com
More info: https://ffvt.net/en/fellowship/our-fellows/ziad-alahmad
Lejla Sunagic
Sociology and Social Anthropology
Lund University, Sweden
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 15 Jan- 15 Apr 2024
room 03/325
Research Project: Situated rationality of Syrians’ boat migration to Europe: Dance between wisdom and desperation
Contact: lejla.sunagic@risk.lth.se
More info: https://ffvt.net/de/fellowship/our-fellows/
Ioanna Blasko
Human Geography
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 1 Jan- 29 Feb 2024
room 03/325
Research Project: Agency on the labour market: The workplace as an integration site for highly skilled refugees in Sweden
Contact: ioanna.blasko@kultgeog.uu.se
More info: https://ffvt.net/de/fellowship/our-fellows/ioanna-blasko
Rawnak Dakelbab
Sociology
MA with distinction, Staffordshire University, UK:
"Forced Displaced Syrian Women in Turkey: Gender Role Shift and Femininity”, Supervisor: Sarah Page
at IMIS: since February 2022
room 03/117
Dissertation project: "A Constructivist Grounded Theory about the Experiences of Syrian Refugee Women in Germany with Gender Specific Honour Codes"
E-Mail: rawnaq@gmx.com
Cyntia de Andrade Machado
Sociology
PhD topic: Decent work for domestic workers: An analysis of strategies for the ratification and implementation of the ILO Convention 189 one decade after. A comparison between Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken
at IMIS: Sep 2021-Oct 2024
Dr Alex Fusco
Geography
Sussex University, UK
Fellow of the FFVT Project, Oct-Dec 2023
Project: The Production of Camp Space: An Ethnography of a Refugee Camp in Mainland Greece
Contact: alex.t.fusco@gmail.com
More Info: https://ffvt.net/en/fellowship/our-fellows/dr-alex-tomas-fusco
Dr. Mary Rose Sarausad
Migration Research
Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 1 Sept - 31 Nov 2023
room 03/325
Research Project: Assessment of Thailand’s Current Policy Response to Forced Displacement and Alternative Pathways for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in a Non-Signatory Country
Contact: maryrose.sarausad@gmail.com
More info: https://ffvt.net/en/fellowship/our-fellows/dr-mary-rose-sarausad
Prof. Dr. Aysegul Kayaoğlu
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Istanbul Technical University
Visiting Scholar at IMIS/ affiliated to the FFVT project since Sept 2022, funded by Tübitak
Research Project: The economic integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Germany
Contact: akayaoglu@uni-osnabrueck.deaysegulkayaoglu@gmail.com
Feriha Nazda Güngördü, PhD
Urban Planning
Çankaya University, Ankara
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 15 Jan - 15 April 2023
Research Project: Research Project on "Refugees’ housing strategies under precarious conditions and policy/political gaps in migration and asylum governance: Critical evaluation of the Turkish Context"
Contact: nazdagungordu@cankaya.edu.tr
room 03/325
More info: ffvt.net/de/fellowship/our-fellows
Michael Bunch, M.A.
Modern History
University of Colorado
at IMIS: 19 September 2022 to 1 March 2023,
funded by a Fulbright grant
Research project on post-WWII Germany, the settlement of displaced persons and Heimatlose Ausländer
More information: https://colorado.academia.edu/MichaelBunch
E-Mail: michael.bunch@colorado.edu
Bojana Babić
European Ethnology
Humboldt University Berlin
Fellow in the FFVT project at IMIS, 1 Dec 2022 - 28 Feb 2023
room 03/325
Research Project: Economic practices of displaced Syrians in Istanbul and Cairo / Refugees and Returnees in Ex-Yugoslavia
Contact: bojana.babich@gmail.com
More info: https://ffvt.net/de/fellowship/our-fellows
