Shaddin Almasri, PhD MSc
Senior Scientist - Center for Migration and Globalisation Research
- shaddin.almasri@donau-uni.ac.at
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- Campus Krems, Tract V, 1st Floor, V.E1.06
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Center for Migration and Globalisation Research
- Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
- 3500 Krems
- Austria
Functions
Shaddin is a postdoctoral researcher focused on inequalities between refugee and migrant groups of varying backgrounds. She is particularly interested in the interactions between aid, development, and refugee/migrant integration, with a specific focus on the SWANA and East Africa regions. She takes a keen interest in refugee policy in the Global South and is currently exploring the intersection of scale of refugee and migrant arrival, rights, and temporality, and the impact this has on determining refugee admission and integration policy.
She is currently investigating questions on the links between (perceived) inequalities and migrant relations in North Africa under her postdoctoral role in the MixedRivals project (Mixed (ar)rivals: Perceptions of threat, inequality, and the risk of violence between different (forced) migrant groups in North Africa). With colleagues at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Shaddin is investigating what factors influence perceptions of migrant groups of each other, and under what conditions these can trigger solidarities or rivalries.
About the person
Shaddin holds a PhD in Migration Studies from Danube University Krems in the Department for Migration and Globalisation. Her thesis investigated the links between migration diplomacy and nationality-based refugee aid and inclusion policies in Jordan and Turkey. She also holds an MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London.
Projects (Extract Research Database)
Completed projects
Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG)
Duration: 01/09/2020–31/12/2022
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)
Publications (Extract Research Database)
Almasri, S. (2023). Why is Syria a War but Not Afghanistan? Nationality-based aid and protection in Turkey’s Syria refugee response. Refugee Survey Quarterly 42, Special Issue 1: 29-54, Oxford Academic
Almasri, S. (2023). Crisis management: A look at differentiated refugee support in countries of first asylum. Zenodo: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8215120
Almasri, S. (2022). Exclusive Refuge: Origins, causes and impacts of exclusionary nationality-based targeting in refugee protection and aid.
Almasri, S. (2021). The Political Economy of Nationality-Based Labor Inclusion Strategies: A Case Study of the Jordan Compact. Middle East Critique, Volume 30, Issue 2: 185-203
Almasri, S. (2021). Power, Protection and Policy: The Condition of Domestic Workers in the Arab States during COVID-19. In: Diab, J. L.; Dharani, U. B., Female Migrant Labourers and COVID-19 in Asia: 10-12, Global Research Network, Canterbury, UK
Almasri, S. (2021). Book review: "Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities". MIgration & (Im)mobility Magazine / Routed, 18: n/a, n/a
Lectures (Extract Research Database)
Austerity in the MENA region and post-COVID social protection
MAJALAT EU Southern Neighborhood Policy Seminar: For a Shift of the Post-Covid19 Development Paradigm, 30/11/2021
Female Migrant Labourers and COVID-19 in Asia
Global Research Network War, Conflict and Global Migration Think Tank, 05/11/2021
The European Union’s response to the refugee situation in Afghanistan
What role for the EU Pact on Migration and the UN Global Compact on Refugees?; Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 17/09/2021
Refugee Inclusion -- for whom? A Case Study of the Influence of Aid Politics on Refugee Inclusion Strategies in the Jordan Compact
IMISCOE Annual Conference on “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”, 08/07/2021
A Critique of Nationality-Based Aid [Protection?] and Inclusion Policy
EuroMedMig "Mediterranean Migration Studies: Theoretical and Empirical Research Agenda", 28/06/2021
Gender, COVID and labour: Politics and policy of domestic work during lockdowns
The COVID-19 impacts on migration and migrants from a gender perspective’ Inception Workshop, International Organization for Migration, 14/06/2021