# Refugees and Migration

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### Asylum and migration law

**Dr Lynn Hillary** is an assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her research interests include migration law, EU law, asylum law and human rights. She also focuses on interstate cooperation and the Europeanisation of national constitutional and administrative law. | [L.Hillary@uva.nl](mailto:L.Hillary@uva.nl)

## Refugee resettlement

**Prof. Marjoleine Zieck** is professor of International Refugee Law. She is also professor of Public International Law at the Pakistan College of Law in Lahore. In her research, Zieck focuses in particular on the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and the resettlement of refugees. | [M.Y.A.Zieck@uva.nl](mailto:M.Y.A.Zieck@uva.nl)

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## **Humanitarian responses**

**Dr Polly Pallister-Wilkins** is an associate professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution and Governance. She conducts research into humanitarian responses to migration and refugee flows. | [P.E.Pallister-Wilkins@uva.nl](mailto:P.E.Pallister-Wilkins@uva.nl)

[Profile page](https://www.uva.nl/profiel/p/a/p.e.pallister-wilkins/p.e.pallister-wilkins.html)

## **Integration policies**

**Dr Tamar de Waal** is an assistant professor working in general legal theory. She specialises in integration policies (in EU Member States), multi-level citizenship, and integration requirements and citizenship education. | [T.M.deWaal@uva.nl](mailto:T.M.deWaal@uva.nl)

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## Migration and emotional attachment

**Prof. Jan Willem Duyvendak** is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the UvA, as well as director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. His research interests / areas of expertise include migration, citizenship, nativism, belonging, feeling at home and emotional attachment. | [w.g.j.duyvendak@uva.nl](mailto:w.g.j.duyvendak@uva.nl) | +31(0)20 525 2940 | +31(0)20 525 2614

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## Migration, ethnic disparity and intergroup relations

**Prof. Fenella Fleischmann** is professor of Socioloy. Her research interests include migration, ethnic disparity, and intergroup relations in various countries. In this field, she focuses on questions such as: How do societies deal with the diversity that results from migration? How do immigrants (and their descendants) fare in a new society, and what role does religion play in this process? | [F.Fleischmann@uva.nl](mailto:F.Fleischmann@uva.nl)

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## **International migration policy**

**Dr Evelyn Ersanilli**is a senior researcher in Political Science. She studies citizenship, international migration governance and policies on low-skilled migrant workers. | [E.F.Ersanilli@uva.nl](mailto:E.F.Ersanilli@uva.nl)

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## **Migration and integration**

**Dr Saskia Bonjour** carries out research on politics and policy-making in the fields of migration, assimilation and citizenship. | [S.A.Bonjour@uva.nl](mailto:S.A.Bonjour@uva.nl) | +31 (0)6 1554 9306

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## **Migrant motives & migration policies**

**Dr Anja van Heelsum** is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on the interplay between migrants' motives and migration policies. | [A.J.vanHeelsum@uva.nl](mailto:A.J.vanHeelsum@uva.nl) | +31 (0)20 525 2169

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## Causes of migration

**Dr Jeroen Doomernik** is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and a senior researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies. His research focuses on the root causes of migration processes, migration controls, irregular migration, human trafficking, asylum and refugees. | [J.M.J.Doomernik@uva.nl](mailto:J.M.J.Doomernik@uva.nl) | +31 (0)20 525 3613 | +31 (0)20 525 3627

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## **Humanitarian intervention and protection**

**Dr Lucy Hall** is a lecturer in the Bachelor’s programme PPLE (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics). Her research focuses on humanitarian intervention and protection, with a particular focus on internal displacement, refugee protection and gender. She previously worked for the UNHCR. | [L.B.Hall@uva.nl](mailto:L.B.Hall@uva.nl)

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