Members
Leslie Ader
Leslie Ader has a diverse interdisciplinary background. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, History & Pre-Law at Lebanon Valley College, her initial M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at Arcadia University, and another Master’s degree in Nationalism Studies at Central European University. Leslie also has fieldwork experience in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, working on advocacy projects for asylum seekers and disabled children. She is currently working on her doctorate that examines the legal discourses and narratives surrounding welfare rights for “disabled migrants” in Switzerland.
Jenna Althoff
Jenna Althoff is a migration researcher with emphasis on structures and agency in migration governance, politico-institutional contexts of mobility regulation, and migration policy analysis. Her expertise also covers narratives and discourses on migration, evaluation of integration measures and concepts, analyses of mobility within and across labour markets, and knowledge transfer on migration topics. She has been working for various research institutes, think tanks and consultancies, and in different countries, for example Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland.
Profile, Publications, CV: http://www.inzentim.de/jenna-althoff/
Jasmine Andenmatten
Jasmine Andenmatten is currently working as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni at the University of Lucerne. Since August 2020, she is part of AsyLex. Before that, she has done an internship at the Immigration Office in Basel-Stadt and at the UNHCR Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein and worked for the Immigration Office in Lucerne. Her PhD thesis deals with the right to health in the asylum procedure.
Maud Bachelet
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Maud Bachelet is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva. She holds a bachelor’s degree in European Studies from Maastricht University and has recently completed a dual master’s degree in European affairs and international migration. Her research focuses on responsibility-sharing in European migration governance, under the framework of the FNS project “Connecting countries and dividing people” (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208858).
Clara Bombach
Clara Bombach, MA Social and Cultural Anthropology, is a lecturer for Social Work at Bern University of Applied Sciences. Specializing in qualitative research, she focusses on child, youth welfare and forced migration studies, specifically examining the experiences of young children and adolescents in out-of-home placements and asylum shelters. Her dissertation at the University of Zurich, that she successfully defended in spring 2023, is an ethnography about the everyday lives of children and their families in Swiss asylum centers. She is interested in the conditions children need to grow up well and safely and passionate about creating safe and nurturing environments for children.
Profile, Publications: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clara-bombach/?locale=en_US
Jonas Bornemann
Jonas Bornemann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Lausanne and the HES-SO Valais-Wallis and a postdoctoral fellow of the nccr – on the move. His research predominantly focuses on EU constitutional and migration law. Previously, Jonas worked as a doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz and as a legal trainee at the Odysseus Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe.
Lisa Marie Borrelli
Joel Brauchbar
Joel Brauchbar obtained his Bachelor and Master of Law at the University of Lucerne while focusing on transnational law (Transnational Legal Studies). Prior to his studies, Joel lived for several years in Ghana where he completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB Diploma) and worked in a law firm. After working in an assistant position at the University of Lucerne, he obtained 2019 a position at the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) and acquired experience working for a brief period at the Cantonal Court in Lucerne. Joel established in 2023 that there are a number of questions regarding the expulsion practice in Switzerland (in particular: “Landesverweisung”) and thus decided to pursue a PhD which deals with issues regarding entry bans, expulsion practice and crimmigration in Switzerland.
Palmo Brunner
Palmo Brunner is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Zurich's Political Science Department. Her research areas encompass diaspora and immigrant politics, transnationalism, social movements, and contentious politics. Her dissertation investigates the voice of diasporas within the dynamics of democracy and autocracy, considering both inclusive and illiberal state policies. Focusing on the Tibetan diaspora in Switzerland and Canada, her qualitative study explores how diaspora mobilization is simultaneously embedded in and shaped by multiple contexts. Additionally, Palmo contributes to public health research projects at Chair of Democracy and Public Governance.
https://www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/institut/mitarbeitende/staff/brunner.html
Myriam Conijn
Emirhan Darcan
Dr Emirhan Darcan - SNF SAR Fellow - works at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bern. He came to the university with the Scholars at Risk program, which is an international network that supports researchers at risk.
Emirhan Darcan researches and teaches on the topics of radicalization and de-radicalization, police and society, crime and public order, and much more. Emirhan Darcan is also involved in the initiative "Education for All - Now!", which campaigns for the integration of refugees
in school, training and work. The initiative demands simplified access to education as a basic right for all.
Profile : https://www.krim.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/darcan_emirhan/index_ger.html
Publications : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emirhan-Darcan
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/emirhan-darcan-ph-d-4b02b158/?originalSubdomain=ch
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Virginie Fazel
Virginie Fazel is a scholar with an interdisciplinary background. She first studied French literature and social sciences at the University of Lausanne, followed by a Master's in the sociology of religions in Fribourg. She conducted fieldwork in Lebanon for her Master's thesis on the impact of war and forced migration on Syrian refugees' religiosity. Currently a PhD student at the University of Zurich, she investigates the roles of local and online communities in the lives of young individuals with migration backgrounds in Switzerland, combining the topics of migration, digitalisation and religion. Alongside her academic pursuits, Virginie worked with NGOs, focusing on the right to education and children's well-being.
Nula Frei
Dr. iur. Nula Frei works as a senior assistant at the Institute for European Law at the University of Fribourg. She was previously a research assistant at the Center for Migration Law and the Swiss Competence Centre for Human Rights at the University of Bern. She wrote her dissertation on the protection of human trafficking victims in asylum procedures. Additionally, she is the author of numerous publications on asylum and refugee law. She previously worked at the UNHCR office for Switzerland and Lichtenstein.
Angie Gago
Angie Gago is a Senior Researcher at the Centre of Comparative, European and International Law of the University of Lausanne and a post-doctoral Fellow of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR − On the Move) for migration and mobility studies. She obtained her PhD in Political Studies at the University of Milan in 2018. Her research interests are multi-level politics, institutions and public policy. More specifically, she is interested in the interplay between European Union politics and national political dynamics and policy-making. Her research has been published in the Journal of European Integration, Irish Political Studies and South European Society and Politics, among others.
Mia Gandenberger
Mia Gandenberger is a PhD student at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) of the University of Lausanne. Her research interests include social and economic inequalities, social policy, and public opinion towards redistribution in welfare states in diverse societies. She holds a Master in Socioeconomics with Option Population Studies from the University of Geneva and a Bachelor’s degree in Political and Administrative Science from the University of Konstanz.
Teresia Gordzielik
Anne-Laurence Graf
Anne-Laurence Graf-Brugère is a senior researcher at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights, thematic cluster migration. She is affiliated to the Universities of Neuchatel and Bern. Her recent researches focus on the prosecution of human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation in Switzerland, the impact of the Istanbul Convention (gender-specific violence) on the Swiss asylum law and practice and the relevance of the Global Compact on Migration for Switzerland. She is also part of the team that was mandated by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) to evaluate the legal protection and the decisions on asylum and return in the frame of the new accelerated asylum procedure.
Léa Hemmi
Léa Hemmi is currently working as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in the Swiss Unit. Previously, she had a range of experience within the Swiss judicial system, both cantonal and federal, having notably practiced as an attorney-at-law and as a legal clerk at the Federal Administrative Court in asylum law.
Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik is a PhD student in political science at the University of Geneva. Her PhD research focusses on the interplay between migration and trade governance. She has studied political science and law in Münster and London and has previously worked as a Research Associate for the European Migration Network. Her research interests include EU politics, migration law and governance and the intersection between political science and legal studies.
David Hongler
David obtained a Bachelor and a Master of Law at the University of Zurich. During his studies, he worked as junior research assistant to Prof. Dr. Oliver Diggelmann at the Chair for International Law, European Law, Public Law and Philosophy of State. Later, he completed a second Master program in interdisciplinary China studies (with a focus on economics) at Peking University in Beijing. Having returned from China, he gained work experience at he Federal Administrative Court, the NGO Freiplatzaktion Zürich, as well as a law firm specialised in Migration Law. Since 2019, he serves as a board member of Freiplatzaktion Zürich. He is currently pursuing his PhD in public international law at the University of Zurich supported by the University's CANDOC scholarship. At the same time, he pursues research interests in Swiss and European refugee and migration law.
Enja Jäggi
Enja Jäggi is a researcher at the University of Berne working with Prof. Alberto Achermann in the Department of Public Law. Her research project examines migration control through criminal law. Her interests include migration and social policy, human rights, crimmigration, criminal law and much more.
Jyothi Kanics
Jyothi Kanics has an interdisciplinary background including degrees in Russian & East European Studies and Russian Language & Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill) as well as a Masters in International Human Rights Law (University of Oxford) and a Masters in International Relations (Yale University). She carried out research in Switzerland as a Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne within the NCCR-on the Move, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her PhD dissertation presents a model for a child-rights based regularisation mechanism, which would enable undocumented children to fulfil their right to be heard and to have their best interests considered in such decisions. She has worked and published extensively on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations.
Nina Khamsy
Nina Khamsy is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research is funded by the SNF Doc.CH grant and focuses on the impact of new technologies on forced migration. Using ethnographic methods, she conducts in-person and online research to shed light on the way smartphones and social media shape migration trajectories in Europe. Her fieldwork takes place between Switzerland and Southeast Europe among Afghans on the move. She holds a BA in International Relations (University of Geneva), an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies (SOAS, University of London), and an MSc in Social Anthropology (Oxford University).
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/anthropology-and-sociology/scales-mobility-afghan-migrant-youth-digital-era
Anne Kneer
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After studying international relations in Geneva and law in Bern, Anne Kneer worked for more than six years at the Federal Administrative Court as a clerk in Division IV. In addition, she has published articles on topics such as credibility, appeal procedures and free administration of justice in asylum proceedings, and wrote her dissertation on "The asylum procedure as a special case - The specific characteristics of the asylum procedure as an explanation for deviations from the general administrative procedure" at the University of St.Gallen. Currently the head of the legal service of the Migration Office St. Gallen.
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Philipp Lutz
Philipp Lutz is a political scientist primarily interested in the political consequences of international migration with a focus on the comparative study of government policies and public opinion. He is currently a senior researcher at the University of Geneva and an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a PhD from the University of Bern (2019) and has been a guest researcher as the European University Institute (Fiesole, IT) and the London School of Economic and Political Science (UK).
Maja Lysienia
Maja Lysienia holds a Master degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a doctoral degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (summa cum laude). She specializes in international and EU migration and asylum law. Her doctoral dissertation concerned a judicial dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union in the area of asylum. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne and HES-SO Valais-Wallis, analysing migrant workers' precarization in times of crisis. She combines academic research with supporting civil society organizations working in the area of asylum and migration.
Doctoral dissertation in open access: https://suigeneris-verlag.ch/buecher/027
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maja-lysienia-phd-180021a5/
Cecilia Manzotti
Cecilia Manzotti is a PhD candidate at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology of the University of Sussex (UK), currently based in Switzerland. Her research focuses on the identification of stateless asylum-seekers and, more broadly, on the determination of asylum seekers’ nationality and country of origin, in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. In her research, Cecilia adopts a socio-legal perspective and relies on a combination of doctrinal analysis and primary data collection through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree (Università degli Studi, Milan) and a Master’s degree (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) in Ethics and Political Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Conflict Management (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa). Before joining the University of Sussex, she worked for several years in refugee protection and statelessness prevention and eradication with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and different NGOs in Italy, the Middle East and Africa. Moreover, she conducted research on smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Cecilia’s profile and publications can be seen at https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p482555-cecilia-
manzotti/about.
Anna Marino
Anna Marino is a Doctoral Researcher at the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines of the University of Neuchâtel and a fellow at NCCR on the move, the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration-Mobility Nexus. Anna possesses expertise in international relations, EU affairs and migration governance and experience as junior lecturer at the Political Sciences Department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University and as blog co-creator and writer at WE CHALLENGE - Envisioning Change. Her PhD thesis "Who’s Beyond the Border? Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Migration in Southern European Border Societies" is situated within the broader NCCR on the move project on "Narratives of Crisis and Their Influence in Shaping Discourses and Policies of Migration and Mobility".
Noémie Mathivat
Noémie Mathivat is a PHD student at the University of Neuchâtel and research assistant at the Haute Ecole Pédagogique de Fribourg. After completing a Masters Degree in teaching French as Foreign Language in France and England and a Masters Degree for teaching in Switzerland she has been developing a professional experience in various contexts for many years: in private international schools, at the University of Jordan, in public schools in Switzerland as well as volunteering in an association that offers French classes to migrant learners. Throughout her teaching trajectory she has developed interests in the field of migration and mobility. Her PHD project aims at understanding the transnational school trajectories of migrant teenagers in Fribourg and Lausanne regarding the personal resources of the youngsters as well as the institutional context where they learn. She also works on migrant teachers’ professional integration in Swiss schools in the Research Unit 'Trajectoires' (HEPFR).
Livia Matter
Livia Matter currently is a PhD candidate at the University of Fribourg. Her PhD thesis examines the interoperability of EU information systems and its compatibility with the fundamental right to data protection.
Prior to commencing her dissertation, she worked as an asylum specialist at the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Basel and a bilingual Master's degree from the Universities of Basel and Geneva.
Research interests: migration law, human rights law, data protection law and European law.
Clare Maxwell
Clare Maxwell is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Sociology at L’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement Genève. She holds a Master's of Development Studies, and a joint Bachelors degrees in Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research focuses on democratic strategies and processes in the Kurdish diaspora, and their links with indigenous political organization. She comes from a background in journalism and policy education with a focus on migration and asylum rights, and direct democracy.
Monika Plozza
Monika Plozza is a senior research associate (postdoc) and lecturer at the University of Lucerne, specialising in public law, with a focus on public international law, international human rights law, migration law, and constitutional law. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Monika worked in the Legal Department of the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). More information about Monika can be found here.
Janine Prantl
Dr. iur. Janine Prantl is a senior researcher and lecturer in international and European law at the University of Fribourg. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck, and her first law degree at the University of Vienna. For her dissertation, Janine set her research focus in international and European human rights and refugee law. The dissertation elaborated on the legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union, with comparative aspects from the US system. Janine also holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia University. She received a one-year post-graduate fellowship from Columbia to support the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights as Legal Fellow. Janine then worked on a project on community-based refugee sponsorships as Immigration Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell Law School before she came to Switzerland. https://www.unifr.ch/ius/fr/faculte/collaborateursscientifiques/maitresassistants/people/367706/661c4
Pia Radke
Giulia Raimondo
Dr Giulia Raimondo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg (Faculty of Law Economics and Finance). Her research interests lie in public international law, international migration law, and legal philosophy. Before joining the University of
Luxembourg, Giulia received a PhD in International Law (summa cum laude) at the Geneva Graduate Institute. While completing her PhD, Giulia visited the University of Oxford thanks to an SNF DocMobility Fellowship. Her doctoral thesis examined the international responsibility of the EU and its member states for human rights violations during the implementation of the European integrated border management. Her PhD won the 2022 Swiss Association for International Law Prize and is forthcoming with Hart Publishing. In addition to the PhD, she holds a Master of Laws from McGill University and a law degree from the Catholic University of Milan.
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Corinne Reber
Corinne Reber, MLaw (Zurich), LL.M. (Maastricht), currently works as a research and teaching assistant for Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni at the University of Lucerne. While her research focuses on various aspects of asylum and migration law, her dissertation deals with the variety of clarification processes in asylum procedures (identity and origin clarifications, age assessments, embassy investigations) and their impact on the standard of proof and procedural guarantees of asylum seekers.
In addition to her research, she works as a lawyer and co-director of Freiplatzaktion Zürich, a legal advice centre for asylum and migration law. She is also a board member of the associations Pikett Asyl, Pikett Administrativhaft and Solidarité sans Frontières (SOSF).
Laura Rezzonico
Tiphaine Robert
Damian Rosset
Laure Sandoz
Laure Sandoz currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography of the University of Neuchâtel. She is part of the NCCR On the Move, an interdisciplinary project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which aims to enhance the understanding of contemporary migration patterns. Her research interests include the interplay between mobility and social change, the influence of private sector intermediaries on migration governance, and the transformation of labour relations. She is the author of a book on the mobilities of the “highly skilled” towards Switzerland (Springer, 2019) and she published several peer-reviewed journal articles on selective migration policies, privileged mobilities, and transnational entrepreneurship.
Thomas Schaad
Thomas Schaad studied law at the University of Zurich. He then worked as a trainee in a Zurich law firm and was admitted to the Zurich bar in 2013. Subsequently, he worked as a litigating attorney, mainly in migration and criminal law. Since 2019 he is a research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Giovanni Biaggini at the University of Zurich and is working on his PhD Thesis at the University of Bern under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alberto Achermann on the obligation to cooperate under the Federal Act on Foreign Nationales and Integration.
Stefan Schlegel
Mathis Schnell
Mathis Schnell a PhD-candidate at the Laboratoire d’études des processus sociaux (LAPS) of the University of Neuchâtel. In his dissertation, he is examining the institutional discourse around deservingness in the domain of asylum, notably claims based on the persecution due to gender identity and/or sexual orientation. Further, he is active as a teaching-assistant for quantitative methods on BA-level and associated with the NCCR - on the move.
Irina Sille
Annelise da Silva Canavarro
Dr. Annelise da Silva Canavarro (former Erismann) is a Swiss naturalized political scientist of Brazilian origin, interested in the intersection between international higher education, labor sociology, and interdisciplinary migration scholarship. In her publications, she has tackled different facets of academic precarity, defended critical approaches to international student mobility, and experimented with writing for gender, feminist, and anti-imperialist audiences. Her Ph.D. (University of Lausanne, 2023) proposed a new conversation between Marxist dependency and intersectionality theorists, attempting to convince both of the unexplored potential of the field of international student mobility and migration. She currently volunteers for the Freiplatzaktion Zürich. In the long-run, she remains deeply invested in the activities of the Research Network Globalization, Race, and Alterities within and beyond the University of the Swiss Association for Gender Studies and the SP Migrant:innen Biel.
Publications: https://www.annelisesilvacanavarro.com/
Ferenkeh Tarawally
Ferenkeh Tarawally is a Masters of Advance Studies Student at the University of Applied Science in Olten, Switzerland (FHNW-Olten). He holds a master’s degree in international relations and diplomacy from the Geneva School of International Relations and Diplomacy. Ferenkeh has completed studies in Switzerland to become a qualified migration specialist (Migrationsfachmann), studies which focuses on Swiss Migration history, policies and Integration process. His research work focuses on providing psychosocial care counselling services for the integration process for pre-trial detention children (juveniles).
Alyssa Taylor
Alyssa Taylor is a PhD student at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) of the University of Lausanne. She holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Mannheim (Germany), a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a minor in economics as well as a bachelor’s degree in the German language from Ohio State University (USA). Her research focuses on questions at the intersection of citizenship, integration, noncitizen political rights, and public opinion and uses quantitative methods to analyze her research.
Gesa Teigelkötter
Gesa Teigelkötter is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Laboratoire d’études des processus sociaux (LAPS) of the University of Neuchâtel with an interdisciplinary background in migration studies and psychology. She is also associated with the NCCR on the move. In her dissertation, she questions the production and boundary making of (un)deportability through health.
Dominique Tran
Dominique Tran holds a Bachelor and Master of Law from the University of Fribourg. After her studies, she volunteered for the "Mentoring Integration Project" of Caritas Vaud. Since January 2018, she has been working as a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Center of Public Law at the University of Lausanne under the supervision of Prof. Véronique Boillet. Her PhD project has the aim of delimiting the notion of integration and defining its role in the current context of Swiss Migration law through a human rights perspective.
Field(s) of research: Nationality law, Migration law, Human Rights Law, Constitutional law
Matthieu Vétois
Matthieu Vétois holds a MSc in experimental psychology from the University of Geneva. Since March 2019, he has been working as a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Social Psychology Unit of the University of Geneva. He is also part of the NCCR On the Move, an interdisciplinary project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which aims to enhance the understanding of contemporary phenomena related to migration and mobility. His doctoral thesis, jointly supervised by Prof. Juan-Manuel Falomir and Prof. Eva Green, investigates the interplay between social norms and news coverage of immigration on attitudes towards immigration.
Field of research: social and political psychology, affective science
Carole Viennet
Maarja Vollmer
Maarja is a Doctoral Researcher at University of Neuchâtel within the project “Narratives of Crisis and Their Influence in Shaping Discourses and Policies of Migration and Mobility”. Her background is in sociology and she holds a Master’s degree on International Migration and Ethnic Relations from Malmö University in Sweden. Maarja has formerly carried out national and international research projects within the field of migration, integration, social cohesion and policy evaluation with both quantitative and qualitative approach. Before starting her PhD studies, she was working at the European Migration Network Estonian National Contact Point. Her research interests include migration governance, migration policy formation, securitisation of migration, and citizenship.
Michelle von Dach
Michelle von Dach is a social anthropologist with a background in political science too. Currently, she is a PhD researcher and lecturer at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on the experience of different forms of migrant im(mobility) and how these are connected to bordering practices, migration policies, and waiting. She conducted multisided ethnographic fieldwork in Italian border areas and a year-long ethnography in the Italian capital, Rome. Other topics included within her research are gendered aspects of irregular migration, ethical challenges in qualitative migration research, and the affective dynamics when researching in vulnerable contexts.
Barbara von Rütte
Barbara von Rütte currently works as a Postdoc at the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. Prior to that she has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (D). She has written her PhD on the recognition of citizenship as a human right at the University of Berne within the framework of the NCCR - on the move. She has published widely in the field of citizenship, statelessness and migration law and acted as a consultant for the Council of Europe on administrative detention of foreign nationals. Since 2020 she is a member of the Federal Commission on Migration (EKM).
Gina Wirz-Suárez
Gina Wirz-Suárez is a Colombian feminist and PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She holds the Doc.CH SNSF grant to carry out her project “Forced Migration and Transnational Activism: The Case of Colombian Women in Exile,” under the supervision of Graziella Moraes Dias da Silva (IHEID) and Eléonore Lépinard (University of Lausanne). Her current research interests focus on Forced Migration Studies, Social Movement theories and Gender Studies. For her Ph.D. dissertation, she analyzes the transnational political activism of Colombian women in exile living in Switzerland and Spain who participated in the Colombian Truth Commission between 2016 and 2023. By using ethnographic and feminist methods, she followed the resources and strategies women mobilized to position
themselves and their agendas in these peacebuilding scenarios, particularly concerning the recognition of exile as an act of victimization from a gender perspective.
CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-wirz-suárez-a81184ba/
Anna Wyss
Anna Wyss is a social scientist interested in the various mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, as well as the experiences and state administration of migration. Theoretically, she approaches these topics from the perspectives of critical migration and border regime studies, the anthropology and sociology of law, as well as from intersectional perspectives. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Bern. Her thesis examined the interrupted journeys of people who seek, but have little hope of obtaining, permanent residence status in European countries. Anna tracked their successive migrations, detentions, and deportations within and beyond the continent, exploring migrants' navigation of the European migration regime, their everyday resistance, and the impact of legal and economic precarity on their lives. The thesis was published as an open-access monograph by Bristol University Press. Anna currently works as a senior researcher at the Law Faculty in Bern on a socio-legal project focused on precarious housing in Germany and Switzerland. For more information, please visit her personal homepage.
Cristina Zamora-Gómez
Cristina Zamora-Gómez is a Doctor in Public International Law and International Relations from Sevilla University and a Doctor Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante. She has carried out several research stays in study and research centers of Universities in Peru, Malta, and Switzerland. She is now a visiting professor at the European Institute of the University of Fribourg. She has made various publications in the following lines of research: international protection, gender, asylum, migrant participation in Institutions; access to justice right; international custom. She is lecturer in the subjects of Public International Law; Right to asylum; European Union Law; International Criminal Law; International commercial law; in different Spanish and foreign universities. She has been awarded the Rosario Valpuesta National Research Award in 2019 and Research Award in Gender Equality by the University of Seville in 2020.
Contact: cristina.zamora@ua.es
