Project Team:
Zahra Babar is Associate Director for Research at CIRS at Georgetown University in Qatar. Previously, she has served with the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Development Program. Her current research interests include rural development, migration and labor policies, and citizenship in the Persian Gulf states.
Anita Ghimire is a research director at the Nepal Institute for Social and Environmental Research. She works on migration and mobility, social norms and gender, adolescents and young people, and social protection. She has worked with DFID, UNICEF, IOM, USAID and World Bank.
Dilshad Muhammadis ALMA Fellow at Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, Germany. His doctoral dissertation studies the local governance of forced migration in Turkey. His broader research interests also include ethnic nationalism, and state-formation with regional focus on Turkey and Syria.
Joyce Takaindisa is a scholar of migration and displacement. She recently completed her PhD at the African Centre for Migration Society, the Wits University. Her research interests are migration and displacement in Africa with particular focus on internal displacement and refugees in Zimbabwe.
Luisa Gabriela Morales Vega is a professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico State, and a member of the Research in Progress Seminar on Critical Legal Studies and Migration at the National University of Mexico. Her current research interests are Latin-American decolonial studies; constitutional critical theories and forced migration among Central America, Mexico and the US.
Franzisca Zanker is a senior researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, Germany, where she heads the research cluster on “Patterns of (Forced) Migration.” Her research interests include migration and refugee governance, peacebuilding and civil society.