PhD Migration Studies

Gabriele De Luca

Dissertation: Assessing extraterritorial interventions on the basis of agent-based modelling
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Parycek
Project: Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG)
Funding: AMIF, Bundesministerium für Inneres

Mag. Margarita Fourer

Dissertation: How can transfer agreements be drafted and implemented to improve the capacity of States to provide durable solutions to refugees and asylum seekers through access to permanent resident status and/or citizenship?
Supervisor: Univ. -Prof. Dr. Peter Parycek
Project: PhD Migration & Sozialer Friede - Interdisziplinäre Umweltforschung
Funding: AMIF

Jiancheng Gu, MSc

Dissertation: Irregular Migration and Return Policies
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Finding Agreement in Return (FAiR)
Funding: Horizon Europe

Maegan Hendow, MA

Dissertation: Irregular migration policy-making under conditions of uncertainty
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Teixeira Mourao Permoser, MA BS
Project: Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies (MIrreM)

Jan Niklas Janoth, MSc BA BA

Dissertation: The power of place: Relative (im)mobility in contexts of environmental change and conflict co-occurrence in Ethiopia
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Relative (im)mobility in contexts of environmental change and conflict co-occurrence
Funding: GFF, FTI-Dissertation-Call 2022

Christina Khoury, MA

Dissertation: Measures for a more successful integration of young Syrian refugees into host societies: A comparative study of the social integration and sense of belonging of young Syrian refugees in Germany, Austria and Jordan.
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Measures for a more successful integration of young Syrian refugees into host societies: A comparative study of the social integration and sense of belonging of young Syrian refugees in Germany, Austria and Jordan.
Funding: Land Niederösterreich, Science Call 2018, Dissertations

Mag. Hakan Kilic

Dissertation: Back to the Roots. Return Migration of Highly Skilled Turkish Origin Migrants from Austria to Turkey.
Supervisor: Univ. -Prof. Dr. Gudrun Biffl
Project: Erwerbsintegration von Flüchtlingen in Wohlfahrtsstaaten: Österreich im internationalen Vergleich
Funding: ÖNB Jubiläumsfonds

Josef Neubauer, MA MSc B.A.

Dissertation: Dynamics of adaptive migration aspirations in Nepal and beyond
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Dynamics of adaptive migration aspirations in Nepal and beyond (DYNAMIGS)
Funding: GFF, FTI-Dissertationen Call 2022

Ali Ahmad Safi, MA

Dissertation: Afghan diaspora in Europe: The agents of peace and development.
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Afghan diaspora in Europe: The agents of peace and development.
Funding: Land Niederösterreich, Science Call 2018, Dissertations

Simona Schreier, MA

Dissertation: From returning back to reintegration? A focus on Nigeria.
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Return and reintegration processes: a focus on Nigeria
Funding: Land Niederösterreich, Science Call 2018, Dissertations

Theresa Schütze, BA MA

Dissertation: Sanctuary Practices and Networks in Desert Borderlands
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Teixeira Mourao Permoser, MA BS
Project: Migration as Morality Politics
Funding: FWF

Akira Soto-Nishimura

Dissertation: Analysis of Migration Drivers, Policy and Segregation
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (QuantMig)
Funding: EU Horizon 2020

Zina Weisner

Dissertation: Gender, Security and Development in the external Dimension of EU Migration Governance
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Czaika
Project: Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG)
Funding: AMIF, Bundesministerium für Inneres

Mag. Mag. Manfred Zentner

Dissertation: The role and the impact of the third sector for the integration of migrants in society
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerald Steiner
Project: Erwerbsintegration von Flüchtlingen in Wohlfahrtsstaaten: Österreich im internationalen Vergleich / Die Bedeutung außerschulischer Aktivitäten für die Integration Jugendlicher mit Migrationshintergrund
Funding: ÖNB Jubiläumsfonds / NFB Dissertationscall

Dissertation: Refugee Inclusion - for Whom? A Case Study of Differentiation in Refugee Support by Nationality in (initial) Host States
Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Mag. Dr. Albert Kraler
Project: Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG)
Funding: AMIF, Bundesministerium für Inneres

Dino Pitoski, PhD

Dissertation: The complex network of human migration: inputs fro European migration policies
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Parycek
Project: PhD Migration & Sozialer Friede - Interdisziplinäre Umweltforschung
Funding: AMIF

Mag. Mag. Isabella Skrivanek, PhD

Dissertation: Activation of refugees in developed welfare states - Austria in international comparison
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Gudrun Biffl
Project:  Erwerbsintegration von Flüchtlingen in Wohlfahrtsstaaten: Österreich im internationalen 
Funding: ÖNB Jubiläumsfonds