The current Senior Editorial Fellows of Migration Politics are based at the Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria. They are responsible for the day-to-day academic leadership and strategic direction of the journal. Their primary functions include:
- Maintaining and developing the journal’s academic profile
- Drafting editorial policy proposals
- Making editorial decisions on manuscripts which they have not mentored prior to submission
- Overseeing peer review processes and appointing members of the Editorial College to manage the peer review and decision drafting for individual articles
- Coordinating with the publisher and host institution on production and dissemination
- Preparing proposals and reports for consideration by the Editorial College
- Recruiting new Editorial College members
Senior Editorial Fellows are appointed for a term of five years.
Heidrun Bonet is Associate Professor at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems. Currently, she leads the ERC Starting Grant: “Mixed (ar)rivals: Perceptions of threat, inequality, and the risk of violence between different (forced) migrant groups in North Africa”. Before joining the department, Heidrun was research and teaching fellow (Maître Assistante) at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva and senior researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC). She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University Geneva, Switzerland.
Mathias Czaika is Full Professor in Migration and Integration, and Head of Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria. His main research interests cover areas as wide as international migration, globalization, development, poverty and inequality; relative deprivation, aspirations, and migration decision making; migration policy formation, policy impact evaluation; labour migration, asylum and refugees.
Albert Kraler is Associate Professor at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems. He previously held positions at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and the Department for Political Science at the University of Vienna. Albert holds a PhD in political science from the University of Vienna and a first degree in Political Science and African Studies from the same university. Albert’s research focuses on irregular migration, regularisation policy, migration governance, refugee and asylum policy, migration statistics, and integration policy.
Julia Mourão Permoser is Full Professor for Migration and Integration at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems. Her research brings together two complementary perspectives. First, a political-sociological approach to the study of migration-related conflicts, movements, and polarization. Second, a theoretical focus on ethics, moral dilemmas, and normative contestation in migration politics and governance. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, a master’s degree in international studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, and a doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna.
Lea Müller-Funk is Assistant Professor at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems. Her work focuses on migration processes and immobility in the context of violent conflict, diaspora politics and political participation andforced migration governance with a geographical focus on the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. Lea Müller-Funk holds a joint PhD degree in Comparative Politics and Arabic Studies from Sciences Po Paris and Vienna University. She has held postdoc positions at the Universities of Oxford and Amsterdam and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies.
Federica Zardo is Senior Researcher at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, University for Continuing Education Krems. She is a political scientist specialising in EU migration and asylum governance, with a particular focus on the external dimension of EU migration policy. Her research lies at the intersection of International Relations and Public Policy and is empirically grounded in the study of EU external relations, especially in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Turin (2015) and was Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna, at the Centre for European Integration Research from 2016 to 2021.
Migration Politics was founded by former senior editorial fellows Saskia Bonjour, Evelyn Ersanilli, and Darshan Vigneswaran at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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