Research Stays

Ashour, Karim: Berlin, Germany (April 2025), conducting expert interviews with German institutions and labour market actors on practices related to labour migration governance and Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs).

Ashour, Karim: May 18 – May 26 2025, Belgium (Brussels & Kortrijk), conducting expert interviews with different Belgian, EU, and international institutions on practices related to labour migration governance and Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs).

Ashour, Karim: Cairo, Egypt (July 2025), conducting expert interviews with Egyptian governmental institutions and international organisations on practices related to labour migration governance and Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs).

Ashour, Karim: Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco (July 2025), conducting expert interviews with Moroccan governmental bodies and international partner organisations on practices related to labour migration governance and Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs).

Ashour, Karim: Frankfurt, Germany (October 2025), conducting expert interviews with German institutions and labour market actors on practices related to labour migration governance and Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs).

Gomes, Mariana: 1 April – 30 June 2025, research stay in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Activities: Data collection. Skills: Interviewing, empirical research skills. 

Heckens, Benedikt: Budapest/Balatonszemes (Hungary), 26 May 2025 – 31 May 2025, Activities: data collection, Skills: interviewing, participant observation

Heckens, Benedikt: Budapest (Hungary), 10 September 2025 – 16 September 2025, Activities: data collection, Skills: interviewing

Heckens, Benedikt: Brussels (Belgium), 1 December 2025 – 4 December 2025, Activities: data collection, Skills: interviewing, participant observation

Kakish, Ammar: October 28 – December 22 2025, German Jordanian University, Activities: Data Collection, Skills: Interviewing, empirical research skills

Mansfeld, Lisa: April 17 – May 28 2025. Visiting researcher, University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Prof. Dr David Reimer. Activities: Further preparation for possible collaboration.

Schäfer, Maria: September 29-December 19 2025, Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg, Prof. Dr. Yuliya Kosyakova, Activities: Working with the IMPa data as the basis for my third research paper, Skills: advanced quantitative data analysis, statistical modelling, data management and preparation, working with large-scale survey and administrative data, econometric methods for addressing endogeneity, research design and empirical strategy development, experience with migration and integration research, statistical software proficiency (i.e., STATA)

Schmidt, Elisabeth: 11 February 2025 – 8 April 2025, Field Trip to South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town), ethnographic research and interview acquisition.

Schmidt, Elisabeth: 6 June 2025 – 9 June 2025, Field Research in Cologne, Germany, focused ethnography

Schmidt, Elisabeth: 3 November 2025 – 4 November 2025, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, GRADE Initiative Situational Analysis, Activities: Data Analysis

Simon, Mark: 28 April 2025 – 24 May 2025, Research stay at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, Prof. Caress Schenk. Activities: networking with colleagues who conduct research on Central Asian migrations and Russian migration to Kazakhstan. Discussing with them the initial results based on data collected in Kazakhstan.

Mansfeld, Lisa: May 17 – May 31 2024. Visiting researcher, University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Prof. Dr David Reimer. Activities: Preparation for possible collaboration