Hi – I am Isabel (Izzy), and I am a post-doctoral researcher on the GRABS project. My research focus in the GRABS project will be the UK and Greece context. My Politics PhD explored the ways that ‘people (with experience of) seeking sanctuary’ engage with the British ‘borderscape’ and was funded by the School of…
(Hola!)I am a doctoral researcher within the Growing Up Across Borders (GRABS) project at the Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA), Université Paris 8. I am currently exploring how centering young irregular migrants and asylum seekers’ experiences can help to understand how migration policies in host countries, and their implementation, tend to perpetuate colonial forms of…
(Hello!) I am Jessi Kume, and I will be writing my PhD thesis in Sociology within GRABS. My research focuses on the impact that borders and border policies have on forced migration. My previous research involved an ethnographic study of the illegal and violent pushbacks along the Croatia-Bosnia-Herzegovina border, part of the Western Balkan migration…
Glenda Santana de Andrade is a PhD in Sociology, attached to the Cresppa (Center for sociological and political research in Paris), Fellow at the Institut Convergences MIGRATIONS. Currently a postdoctoral researcher within the GRABS’ project and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, she is also a member of the scientific network « Genre & Politiques Migratoires…
Jane Freedman is leader of the GRABS project. She is a Professor at the Université Paris 8 and member of the Paris Centre for Social and Political Research (CRESPPA). Her research has focused for many years on issues of migration and borders, with an intersectional and postcolonial approach. She is particularly interested in the ways…