MIGLEG Team

Jane Freedman is Professor at the Univer­sité Paris 8 and a director of the Paris Centre for Socio­lo­gical and Poli­tical Research (CRESPPA). Her research focuses on gender and migra­tion with a parti­cular atten­tion to the produc­tion of gendered and racia­lised forms of violence in the context of migra­tion. Her publi­ca­tions include Gende­ring the Inter­na­tional Asylum and Refugee Debate (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Rout­ledge, 2017); Gender-based Violence in Migra­tion : Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, Femi­nist and Inter­sec­tional Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Marie Mallet-Garcia is a resear­cher at the Univer­sity of Oxford. Her research inter­ests include immi­grants’ inte­gra­tion into the host society through access to and use of social services. She is parti­cu­larly inter­ested in the role of the local context in the inclu­sion process of migrants with preca­rious legal status. 

Jérémy Mandin is a PhD in anthro­po­logy and in Social Sciences, affi­liated to the CEDEM since 2011. As a resear­cher, he colla­bo­rated to several projects focu­sing on urban dyna­mics, inte­gra­tion and social cohe­sion. From 2015 to 2020, Jérémy Mandin worked as a PhD student within the “Rede­fi­ning Home” project (KULeuven, ULiège, UVA). He focused on the emigra­tion prac­tices of young Euro­peans of Magh­rebi back­ground toward Montreal (Canada). This work resulted in the defense of his PhD thesis in 2021. From 2018 to 2020, Jérémy Mandin joined the MITSOPRO project (ULiège) as a country expert for Belgium. Within this project, he also conducted a case study on the migra­tion of French disa­bled people to Belgium. Jérémy Mandin is currently working on the BBox research (ULiège, KULeuven, Saint-Louis University).

His current research inter­ests include the rela­tion between migra­tion and aspi­ra­tions, the emigra­tion dyna­mics and the inter­na­tional mobi­lity poli­cies in Belgium. He also publi­shed about the extreme right move­ments in Italy.

Dr. Elsa Mescoli is affi­liated to the CEDEM since 2011. She is currently post-doctoral resear­cher and assis­tant lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, where she teaches courses related to migra­tion and inter­cul­tural issues. She holds a PhD Degree in Poli­tical and Social Sciences from the Univer­sity of Liege (in co-tutor­ship with the Univer­sity of Milan-Bicocca, Italy) with a thesis on the culi­nary prac­tices of Moroccan women living in Milan (Italy). She conducted exten­sive ethno­gra­phic research in the domain of migra­tion studies both in Europe and outside, with a parti­cular focus on migrants’ cultural prac­tices. She holds a MA in Anthro­po­logy and a BA in Inter­cul­tural commu­ni­ca­tion from the Univer­sity of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). Her research inter­ests include : food and migra­tion, artistic prac­tices of migrants, gender issues, discri­mi­na­tion of Muslims, public opinion and citi­zens’ initia­tives on refu­gees and asylum seekers, socio-cultural prac­tices of undo­cu­mented migrants, poli­cies and prac­tices of inte­gra­tion of newcomers.

Santiago Pérez-Nievasis Professor in the Poli­tical Science and Inter­na­tional Rela­tions Depart­ment at the Univer­sidad Autó­noma de Madrid (UAM). His research inter­ests include poli­tical parties and elec­toral beha­viour with a focus on multi­level contexts, and the elec­toral beha­viour and poli­tical repre­sen­ta­tion of immi­grant-origin mino­ri­ties. On these topics, he has publi­shed articles in scien­tific jour­nals (South Euro­pean Society and Poli­tics, American Beha­vioral Scien­tist, Revista de Inves­ti­ga­ciones Socioló­gicas, Migra­ciones, among others) as well as chap­ters in collec­tive books.

Nora Ratz­mann joined the German Center for Inte­gra­tion and Migra­tion Research (DeZIM) in 2020, first as a Research Fellow in the Depart­ment Conflict and Consensus ; since July 2022, she is leading several quali­ta­tive research projects on State Support and Inte­gra­tion of Refu­gees from Ukraine in Germany, Depart­ment Inte­gra­tion, on the pers­pec­tives and needs of recently arrived Ukrai­nians regar­ding German state-funded social services, and coor­di­nates the inter­na­tional research network « Forced Migrants from Ukraine in Trans­na­tional Europe ». From 2015 to 2019, her doctoral research at the LSE’s Inter­na­tional Insti­tute for Inequa­lity inves­ti­gated barriers to acces­sing German basic social secu­rity for EU citi­zens from the pers­pec­tives of internal migra­tion control and insti­tu­tional discrimination.

Prof. Dr. Antje Röder is Professor for Methods of Empi­rical Social Research at Philipps-Univer­sität Marburg. Previously she was Assis­tant Professor for Migra­tion and Quan­ti­ta­tive Methods at Trinity College Dublin (2011–2015) and Professor of Socio­logy (Research Methods) at TU Chem­nitz (2015–16). She has spent over a decade resear­ching socio-cultural and struc­tural inte­gra­tion processes amongst first and second gene­ra­tion immi­grants in Europe, and is parti­cu­larly inter­ested in inno­va­tive research methods for migrant and ethnic mino­ri­ties. She has conducted several, often cross-natio­nally, compa­ra­tive research projects that inves­ti­gate the inter­ac­tion of host, origin, commu­nity and indi­vi­dual charac­te­ris­tics for socio-cultural inte­gra­tion. She is a foun­ding member of the research network Ifris (Resear­ching refugee inte­gra­tion, xeno­phobia and right wing extre­mism in Saxony) and is a member of the COST ETHMIGSURVEYDATA and the IMISCOE network.

Nina Sahraoui is currently a Marie Skło­dowska-Curie Fellow at the Paris Centre for Socio­lo­gical and Poli­tical Research (CRESPPA, CNRS) conduc­ting the project CYBERGEN (2021–2022). Her research is situated at the cross­roads of diaspora, migra­tion, gender and heath studies. Previously, Nina was a Post-doctoral Resear­cher at CRESPPA within the project VIO-GEN-MIG on gendered based violence in migra­tion contexts and a Post-doctoral Research Asso­ciate at the Euro­pean Univer­sity Insti­tute for three years within the EU Border Care project. Nina completed her PhD at London Metro­po­litan Univer­sity supported by a Marie Sklo­dowska-Curie Fellow­ship and publi­shed her doctoral research with Palgrave Macmillan under the title Racia­lised Care Workers and Euro­pean Older-Age Care. From Care Labour to Care Ethics (2019). Among her recent publi­ca­tions are the edited volumes Gender-Based Violence in Migra­tion : Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, Femi­nist and Inter­sec­tional Approaches, publi­shed with Palgrave (2022), Post­co­lo­nia­lity and Forced Migra­tion (2022) with Bristol Univer­sity Press, Borders Across Heal­th­care publi­shed with Berghan Books (2020). Nina also publi­shed her research in JEMS, Society and Space, Social Policy and Society and Social Science and Medi­cine, among others.