Global Migration on the Ground

Elena Ambrosetti is a demographer with PhD at Sciences Po. She currently works as Associate Professor at the MEMOTEF Department at Sapienza Università di Roma. She works on international migration in Italy, with special attention to migrants’ integration, migration policies, sexual and reproductive health of migrant populations. Additionally, she studies demography of the Mediterranean countries, more specifically her research focuses on fertility transition in Egypt adopting a gender perspective. In her research she uses quantitative methods and yet she is opened to new research fields and to multidisciplinary research.

Francesco Battaglia is Associate professor in European Union Law at the Department of Political Science, Sapienza Università di Roma," where he teaches European Union Law and Institutions. Author of several publications, including Il Mediatore europeo (Cacucci editore, 2020).

Claire Bullen is a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Migration and Diversity at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Tübingen. Her research questions relate to understanding urban place-making and urban change, possibilities for urban comparison, and the potential of infrastructure to tease out multi-scalar relations around the globe. She has carried out fieldwork in the UK, France and Algeria and her current research project involves an ethnographic study of a street in Marseille, which is being examined as part of a wider project looking at urban transformations around the Mediterranean.

Raffaele Cadin is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of Political Sciences of Sapienza Università di Roma where he teaches “International Law”, “International Organization” and “International Law of Economy and Development”. He directs the Master in “International protection of human rights Maria Rita Saulle” and the High Level Training Course “The role of women in peace processes and in the mediation of conflicts for human rights” of the Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on international law, in particular on collective security, human rights, international organization, international development law and international terrorism.

Adélie Chevée is a postdoctoral researcher at Aix-Marseille Université (SoMuM/Mesopolhis/Mucem). Her work, ethnographic and qualitative, is based on the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea and is focused on three broad issues: social movements, forced migrations, and the politics of knowledge and cultural representation.

Manuel Dieterich is a Sociologist at the University of Tübingen. He is currently working on his PhD about the dynamics in and between two adjacent neighborhoods with diverse and unequal population groups in the west of Johannesburg. The research focus is on the nexus of how the perception of threats influences through moralizations the (re-)configuration of the local diversity. Using an ethnographic approach, his research perspective is relational, focusing on interactional practices. His research interests include the sociology of morality, neighborhood/urban studies, social inequality, migration and diversity and the sociology of knowledge.

Charoula Maria Fotiadou, M.Sc. in Archaeological Sciences, is a previous member of the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Team at the University of Τübingen, with experience in creating educational material, conceptualizing and conducting workshops on Service-Learning and Design Thinking. Currently, a freelance project manager, workshop conductor, lecturer and web designer/developer.

Bani Gill is a Junior Professor at the Institute for Sociology, University of Tübingen. She is a qualitative sociologist grounded in ethnographic sensibilities and a regional focus on South Asia and contemporary Africa-India encounters. Her research interests include urbanisms, migration, race and racialization, gender, and the sociology of law, bureaucracy and the state.

Jan C. Jansen is Professor of Modern History (19th–20th Centuries) at the University of Tübingen. Prior to joining the University of Tübingen, he was Assistant/Associate Professor of Global History of Mobility (18th–20th Centuries) at the University of Duisburg-Essen and a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. In the past years, he also held research and lecturer positions at the George Washington University, Georgetown University, the University of Konstanz, the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

Reinhard Johler is a Professor of Empirische Kulturwissenschaft in the University of Tübingen and current director of the Ludwig Uhland Institute. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna, where he taught until coming to Tübingen in 2002. He was an Invited Visiting Professor at the École Normale Superieure in Paris in 2004, President of the German Volkskunde Association from 2007 to 2011 and is currently director of the Institut für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde and President of the Johann-Gottfried-Herder Forschungsrat. His research interests include migration, diversity, and cultural processes in Europe, war experience, and cultures of catastrophe.

Carola Lorea is Assistant Professor of Rethinking Global Religion at the University of Tübingen. She was a Senior Researcher at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and held research fellowships at the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden), Gonda Foundation, and the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. She is interested in sound, performance, oral traditions, and popular religious movements in South Asia. Her first monograph is titled Folklore, Religion, and the Songs of a Bengali Madman (2016). Her current book project is Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement and Caste in the Bay of Bengal.

Pierluigi Montalbano is Full Professor of International Economic Policy at Sapienza Università di Roma and Associate Professor at the same Faculty of the University of Sussex (UK). He is also Director of MSc. on "Migration and Development", at Sapienza Università di Roma. His research interests lie at the crossover between International Economics and Development with a focus on migration, vulnerability, food insecurity, global value chains and impact evaluation for development programs.

Franziska Müller, M. A. in Intercultural Communication, Psychology and Political Science, is a staff member at the sub-section Service-Learning and Civic Engagement at the University of Tübingen. She is responsible for coordinating, designing and implementing courses for students within the CIVIS Micro-programme Civic Engagement as well as implementing training on Service-Learning for lecturers.

Boris Nieswand is Professor for Sociology of Migration and Diversity at the University of Tübingen. He has obtained his PhD in social anthropology from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 2008 and his diploma in sociology from the University of Bielefeld in 2000. Boris Nieswand was a visiting professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and a PhD-candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He has published on transnationalism, migration theory, charismatic Christianity, diaspora formation, diversity, migration regimes, threat and ethnography.

Iris-Niki Nikolopoulos holds a PhD in Political Science and heads the Transdisciplinary Course Programme, including the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement sub-section at the University of Tübingen. Since 2013, her focus has been on interdisciplinary teaching and the development of transdisciplinary teaching and learning formats in Higher Education in cooperation with community partners. Since 2020, she has been involved in the continuous development of the CIVIS Micro-Programme Civic Engagement as coordinator and lecturer.

Glaucia Peres da Silva is a sociologist, specialized in globalization and cross-border processes. Her PhD in economic sociology focused on the formation of global markets, analyzing the case of the world music market. At the University of Tübingen, she is responsible for the development of Global Awareness Education with a focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences. The focus of her work is the inter- and transdisciplinary teaching on globalization, international networking and development of transfer projects.

Céline Regnard is a lecturer in modern history at the Aix-Marseille Université, and director of the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme at l’UMR TELEMMe. She has written extensively on the history of migration, crime and labor in the modern period, with most recently a book on transnational history of Syrian transit migration, En Transit. Les Syriens à Beyrouth, Marseilles, Le Havre, New York (1880-1914) (Anamosa, 2022).

Nina Rösler, M. A. in Peace Research and International Politics, is a staff member at the sub-section Service-Learning and Civic Engagement at the University of Tübingen. She is responsible for designing transdisciplinary Service-Learning courses, training lecturers in the Service-Learning methodology, supporting civically active student initiatives as well as coordinating and networking with community partners.

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the University of Tübingen. He studied Political Science, American Studies and Public Law at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (Germany) (MA 1989; Dr phil 1992) and was awarded the venia legendi in political science (habilitation) by Bremen University (Germany) (2000). Prior to his appointment at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 2017, he held appointments at the University of Oxford (2004-2017), Duke University (North Carolina, USA) (1999-2002) and Bremen University (1993-1999; 2002-2004). His research focuses on the politics of social policy and comparative social policy analysis.