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Centre for migration studies

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Meet the members of the Essex Centre for Migration Studies

The Centre for Migration Studies is home to academic experts and dedicated professionals, working at the forefront of research into issues surrounding migration.

The members of the Centre for Migration Studies approach issues surrounding migration from many disciplinary angles: our members are located in the arts, humanities and across the social sciences. The links below display their expertise and will lead you to their academic staff profiles.

Our Directors

Professor Neli Demireva

Director

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Neli is an expert in migration, inter-ethnic ties, social cohesion, ethnic penalties and multiculturalism.

Dr Sarah Kunz

Deputy Director

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Sarah is an expert on privileged migration, including the commodification of citizenship, and the politics of migration categories.

Our members

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Dr Isabel Crowhurst

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Isabel is an expert in commercial sex, migrant prostitution, governance of prostitution and sex trafficking, intimacy and personal life.

Dr Victoria Donnaloja

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Dr Alejandra Diaz De Leon

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Dr Carlos Gigoux Gramegna

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Carlos is an expert on the impact of migration for Indigenous peoples and the role of social movements in advancing migrants and refugees rights.

Professor Renee Luthra

Director

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Renee is an expert on immigrant integration and ethnic inequality in school, work and health in Germany, the United States and the UK.

Dr Sergio Lo Iacono

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Dr Johanna Romer

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Professor Anna Sergi

Member

Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex

Anna is an expert in criminology, comparative criminal justice and criminal mobility.

Our affiliates

Professor Tobias Bohmelt

Affiliate

Department of Government, University of Essex

Dr Nicolas Geeraert

Affiliate

Department of Pschology, University of Essex

Nicolas is an expert in acculturation, cross-cultural psychology and social psychology.

Dr Tasos Giapoutzis

Affiliate

Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

Professor Kristian Gleditsch

Affiliate

Department of Government, University of Essex

Kristian is an expert in conflict, violence and institutions.

Professor Anuj Kapilashrami

Affiliate

Department of Health and Social Care, University of Essex

Professor Sean Kelley

Affiliate

Department of History, University of Essex

Sean is an expert in transatlantic slave trade.

Dr Mary Mazzilli

Affiliate

Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

Professor Lorna McGregor

Affiliate

Essex Law School, University of Essex

Dr Violetta Parutis

Affiliate

Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Professor Renos Papadopoulos

Affiliate

Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex

Affiliate

Department of Government, University of Essex

Professor Gina Yannitell Reinhardt

Affiliate

Department of Government, University of Essex

Dr Miranda Simon

Affiliate

Department of Government, University of Essex

International collaborators

Professor Sarah Carol

International collaborator

Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

Carmen Fernandez Casanueva

International collaborator

Research Professor at the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, CIESAS

Professor Aoyama Kaoru

International collaborator

Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University

Dr Thomas Soehl

International collaborator

Department of Sociology, McGill University

Dr Merlin Schaeffer

International collaborator

Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Professor Roger Waldinger

International collaborator

Department of Sociology, University of California

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Interim Centre Director Dr Carlos Gigoux Gramegna

University of Essex

Email: cgigou@essex.ac.uk

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