Research Stays

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

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).

Gomes, Mariana: 1 April – 30 June 2025, research stay in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 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.

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

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.