Team members
Dr. Katarzyna Andrejuk
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Warsaw - Centre of Migration Research and Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
kandrejuk@ifispan.waw.pl
Katarzyna holds Master’s degrees in sociology, legal sciences and European law. Her research interests focus on multiculturalism and migration in the processes of Europeanisation. She defended her PhD dissertation about Polish educational migrants in the UK (University of Warsaw, 2012). She also worked as a postdoc visiting scholar at Herder Institut, Marburg and European University Institute, Florence. Most recently she has conducted research about migrant entrepreneurship and self-employment in Poland.
Prof. dr. Alina Esteves
Assistant Professor
Universidade de Lisboa - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Portugal
alinaesteves@campus.ul.pt
Alina Esteves holds a PhD in Human Geography from the Universidade de Lisboa (2004). She is currently Assistant Professor of Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon, and researcher at the Unit MIGRARE - Migration, Spaces and Societies at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), coordinated by Professor Maria Lucinda Fonseca. She has worked in the areas of migration studies and social and urban geography.
Dr. Anna Janicka
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Warsaw - Centre of Migration Research, Poland
ajanicka@wne.uw.edu.pl
Anna Janicka is the head of Economics of Migration Research Unit at the Centre of Migration Research and assistant professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include topics in the supply-side economics of labor migration and she specializes in models of decision-making.
Bruno Machado
PhD Candidate
Universidade de Lisboa - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Portugal
bmachado@campus.ul.pt
Bruno Machado is a PhD candidate in Migrations Studies at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), and a researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Universidade de Lisboa. He has collaborated in other projects (such as GEITONIES and THEMIS) under the supervision of Professor Maria Lucinda Fonseca. Among other themes, he has studied in depth the case of the Portuguese returnees after the decolonization of Portugal’s African territories, one of the most important migration movements in Portugal’s recent history. His main research interests include migration studies, cultural representations and identities.
Ilse Rooyackers
Postdoctoral researcher
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Netherlands
rooyackers@nidi.nl
Ilse is currently finishing her PhD dissertation on mother-child relations and divorce among migrant families. In the MobileWelfare project, she extends her attention from how migration shapes family solidarity, to how (in)formal social security systems shape migration decisions. She will draw on her experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Before working at the NIDI, she obtained her Bachelor degree in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and completed the Research Master in Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism at Utrecht University.
Lukasz Byra
Research Assistant
University of Warsaw - Faculty of Economic Sciences, Poland
lbyra@wne.uw.edu.pl
Lukasz holds a Master’s degree in International Economics, and is in the process of writing his doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. His professional focus is on applying economic modeling to explain human behavior in such areas as migration, human capital formation, and marriage.
Marie Godin
Research officer
University of Oxford - International Migration Institute (IMI), United Kingdom
marie.godin@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Marie holds an MSc in Forced Migration from the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and has recently submitted a PhD thesis to the University of East London addressing the nature of political activism carried out by Congolese women from the diaspora in Belgium and the UK. The thesis aims to improve understanding of the still under-researched area of gender, diaspora and the peace-building/development nexus. Prior to joining IMI, Marie worked as a researcher at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles).Marie Godin’s research interests lie in the area of migration and development, with a focus on diaspora engagement and women's participation in peace-building and (post)-conflict reconstruction. Her new research project aims to provide a better understanding of the role of social protection in destination and origin countries (within and towards Europe) in shaping migration aspirations and decisions.
Dominique Jolivet
Research Assistant
University of Oxford - International Migration Institute (IMI), United Kingdom
dominique.jolivet@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Dominique holds a Master's degree in Foreign Languages Applied to International Business and Trading (Université de Nantes, France) with a specialization in International Business Negotiation (Université François Rabelais of Tours, France) and a Master's degree in Migration Studies, Development and Social Intervention, (Universidad de AlmerÃa, Spain). She specialized in Migration and Co-development (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). At the International Migration Institute she has been involved in the EUMAGINE, THEMIS, and Mobility in the African Great Lakes projects. Her research focuses on the changing value of migration, changing migration aspirations, and on the role of uncertainty in shaping migration aspirations.
Dr. Jennifer McGarrigle
FCT Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Portugal
jmcgarrigle@ceg.ul.pt
Jennifer McGarrigle holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow, UK. She is currently an FCT Research Fellow in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) / Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Universidade de Lisboa. Her main research interests include urban studies and migration.
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Dr. Christof Van Mol
Senior Researcher
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Netherlands
mol@nidi.nl
Christof Van Mol holds an MA in History, an International MA in Migration Studies, and a PhD in Sociology. He is interested in the broad field of migration studies with a particular focus on different forms and patterns of intra-European mobility and migration. His latest book (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), for example, focuses on intra-European student mobility.
Petra De Jong
PhD Candidate
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Netherlands
jong@nidi.nl
After obtaining her Bachelor degree in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Petra completed the Research Master program Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism at the University of Utrecht. She will employ her experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methods, thorough knowledge of the migration literature, and personal interest in social policy while working as a PhD candidate on the Mobile Welfare project.
Igor Jakubiak
PhD Student
University of Warsaw - Centre of Migration Research, Poland
ijakubiak@wne.uw.edu.pl
Igor completed his Master's degree in Computer Science and Econometrics at the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Economics). He has also obtained a Bachelor degree in Quantitative Methods in Economy at the Warsaw School of Economics and took up graduate studies in Data Analysis. Being first and foremost a quantitative researcher, in the Mobile Welfare project he will use his knowledge of macro- and microeconomic modelling. He is currently employed in Centre of Migration Research and begun his first year as a PhD student at the University of Warsaw.
Dr. Jared D. Larson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Portugal
jlarson@campus.ul.pt
A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Jared has been an immigrant himself for a number of years, growing up some, studied, and/or worked in Madrid, Lisbon, Izmir (Turkey) and now Lisbon again to work on the MobileWelfare project. He had been at the the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) / Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) from 2009-2012 to carry out the fieldwork for his Ph.D. thesis in Political Science at the University of Delaware. That project examined the comparative politics of contemporary migration to Portugal and Spain, in particular how the respective roles of democratic and migration transition in both countries have served to limit the right-wing anti-immigrant backlashes and politics seen in many other European countries.
Dr. Sónia Pereira
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG), Portugal
sonia.pereira@campus.ul.pt
Sónia Pereira is a member of the Centre for Geographical Studies at the University of Lisbon. For the past two years she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Human Rights of the University of Deusto, affiliated to the research group International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion.Her research interests lie at the intersection of migration, labour studies and human geography. Since 2000 she has been working on international migration issues both within academia and also for intergovernmental organizations and NGOs. Her current focus is on the study of migration dynamics and processes of labour market incorporation within a framework of human rights protection.
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Dr. Kim Caarls
Postdoctoral researcher
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Netherlands
caarls@nidi.nl
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Kim currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). For her​ dissertation, she investigated how the context of international migration shapes how Ghanaian families are formed, transformed ​or​ dissolved. At NIDI, Kim continues to study the effects of international migration on family life, hereby emphasising the need for an origin and destination perspective in order to fully understand the functioning of family life across borders.