- How do borders, (local, indigenous, host, refugee, migrant and diasporic) communities and institutional actors interact? ow do geopolitical shifts and (dis)connections between places shape experiences of hosting, travelling and the governance of migration, displacement or im/mobility?
- How do migration and im/mobility shape or interact with one’s rights and duties in multiple places, including participation, solidarity, care and social reproduction?
- In what ways do technologies of surveillance, communication, and representation reconfigure border and boundary-making processes, at times facilitating or constraining movement, and at other times mediating the production of place and belonging?
The Migration, Im/mobility and Place Academic Team works across multiple places, including but not limited to the home, town, region, nation, border(lands), water bodies and the digital.
Research topics
The topics the Team researches include:
- Politics, policies and practices of migration, im/mobility in multiple scales (local to global).
- Place-based, intergenerational and intersectional perspectives on migration, im/mobility, citizenship, care, belonging and displacement.
- Emergent digital technologies, materialities of migration, im/mobility and place.
- Cross-border spaces/issues and their relationship with (im)mobilities in economic, political and social terms (such as transnational livelihoods, transboundary waters, industrial/economic zones, indigenous lands, ethnic enclaves and safe zones).
- Linkages between different forms of mobility and structural processes such as (sustainable) development, climate change, and (social) inequality.
Research grounded in a care-based approach to place and im/mobility
Grounded in a relational care-based approach to place and im/mobility, the Team examines key political, economic, social, cultural, economic, technological and ecological issues of our times.
Their research is relevant for policy and public debates on:
- socio-economic and political dynamics and implications of (im)mobility and translocality
- care, education, labor, livelihoods and intergenerational relations
- community-led responses to migration, im/mobility and displacement
- social media polarization and digital equity
- place-based social justice strategies
Main methodologies used are ethnographic and participatory research, feminist research, critical discourse analysis, archival research, survey research, quantitative (secondary) data approach, mixed methods and visual methods, including critical cartography, photovoice, community/life/social mapping, digital storytelling.
Migration Im/mobility and Place research projects
Links to teaching
Migration Im/mobility and Place researchers
Professor Arul ChibProfessor of Technology and Development
Dr Gerard McCarthyAssistant Professor of Social Policy and Development
Dr Nanneke WintersAssistant Professor
Carework, migrant trajectories and translocal livelihoods
Dr Roy HuijsmansAssociate Professor
Dr Sonja FransenAssistant Professor of Displacement and Disasters
Dr Zeynep KaşlıAssistant Professor
Politics of migration, citizenship and border regimes, transnational/transboundary issues
Postdocs and visiting scholars
Dr Anne BrinkmanPostdoc
Civic practice, development and conflict in societies, place and change- Dr Dominique Jolivet
Postdoc
- Dr Eleni Diker
Visiting scholar
Dr Marhabo SaparovaPostdoc
Gender and migration; Carework and transnational inequalities; Gender and space/place
Dr Simona VezzoliPostdoc
Migration, Im/mobilities and Place PhD researchers
Get in touch!
Dr Zeynep Kaşlı
Academic Team leader
- Email address
- kasli@iss.nl