Doctoral Graduates
Congratulations: You’re a Doctor!
Announcing our latest doctoral graduates!
We want to congratulate the following researchers for having achieved the doctor’s degree. They cooperated with our projects and have now completed their doctoral work in the frame of the nccr – on the move. We wish them every success for the future and thank them for their contribution to our NCCR.
Doctoral Graduates 2024
Il/liberal Integrationism. A Contradiction in Terms: Respecting the Values of the Constitution as an Integration Requirement in Switzerland (10.06.2024)
Supervised by Profs. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel and Matteo Gianni, University of Geneva
Projects: Small Localities at the Peripheries of Europe: Transnational Mobilities, Diversification and Multi-Scalar Place-Making and Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement
News Coverage of Immigration and the Normalization of Far-Right Nativism (30.04.2024)
Supervised by Profs. Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor, University of Geneva and Eva G. T. Green, University of Lausanne
Project: Societal Norms as Predictors of Behavior and Attitudes regarding Migration among National Majorities and Immigrants
Doctoral Graduates 2023
The trade-migration policy nexus in the European Union: a conceptual and empirical analysis (13.11.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Sandra Lavenex, University of Geneva
Project: Migration Governance through Trade Mobilities
Familles issues de la migration en Suisse : Mobilité internationale et expériences de vie (21.09.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Philippe Wanner, University of Geneva
Project: Explaining and Interpreting Migration Flows and Stocks
Ageing Transnationally: A Comparative Analysis of Transnational Mobilities in Old Age (28.08.2023)
Supervised by Profs. Mihaela Nedelcu, University of Neuchâtel and Eric Crettaz, HES-GE
Project: Transnational Ageing: Post-Retirement Mobilities, Transnational Lifestyles and Care Configurations
lmitating lrresponsibility in Refugee Protection: Theoretical Foundations for and Empirical Contributions to the Study of Safe Country Policy Diffusion (25.07.2023)
Supervised by Profs. Joachim Blatter, University of Lucerne and Sandra Lavenex, University of Geneva
Project: The Mobility of Migration Policies: Pathways and Consequences of the Diffusion of Migration Policies
Exploring the social organization of difference at the interface of mobility and peripherality: Ethnographic study in a Swiss valley (28.06.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Small Localities at the Peripheries of Europe: Transnational Mobilities, Diversification and Multi-Scalar Place-Making
Acquisitions de la nationalité suisse : de l’intention à l’(im)mobilité (28.06.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Philippe Wanner, University of Geneva
Project: Explaining and Interpreting Migration Flows and Stocks
Tracing the Historical Politicization of Migration and the Commodification of Social Protection Claims in Switzerland: Dilemmas of Mobility and Citizenship for Immigrants with Disabilities (23.06.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Gianni D’Amato, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Mobility, Diversity, and the Democratic Welfare State: Contested Solidarity in Historical and Political Comparative Perspective
Doubting the national order of poverty. The moral administration of “poor others” in Swiss welfare and migration bureaucracies (19.06.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Christin Achermann, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Governing Migration and Social Cohesion through Integration Requirements: A Socio-Legal Study on Civic Stratification in Switzerland
Minority and Majority Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Mutual Acculturation (13.03.2023)
Supervised by Profs. Gianni D’Amato, University of Neuchâtel and Wassilis Kassis, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz and Universität Zürich
Project: Overcoming Inequalities in the Labor Market: Can Educational Measures Strengthen the Agency and Resilience of Migrants, Refugees, and their Descendants?
Migrants pursuing the entrepreneurial “dream” in Switzerland: Cross-border trajectories and unequal opportunities (22.02.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Etienne Piguet and Associate Prof. Yvonne Riaño, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Migrant Entrepreneurship: Mapping Cross-Border Mobilities and Exploring the Role of Spatial Mobility Capital
Understanding migrant deservingness in multi-ethnic societies (27.01.2023)
Supervised by Prof. Giuliano Bonoli, University of Lausanne
Project: Welfare: Inclusion and Solidarity
Doctoral Graduates 2022
Crises of Mobility, Mobilities of Crisis: Studies on Movement and Disruption (30.11.2022)
Supervised by Prof. Gianni D’Amato, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Mobility, Diversity, and the Democratic Welfare State: Contested Solidarity in Historical and Political Comparative Perspective
Imagining the Future: A Sociocultural Psychological Study of Im/Mobilities in and around Suðuroy (16.11.2022)
Supervised by Prof. Tania Zittoun, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Small Localities at the Peripheries of Europe: Transnational Mobilities, Diversification and Multi-Scalar
Place-Making
The great accelerator: The relationship between inclusive political reception contexts and immigrants’ sedentary ties (23.05.2022)
Supervised by Prof. Anita Manatschal, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Societal Norms as Predictors of Behavior and Attitudes regarding Migration among National Majorities and Immigrants
Doctoral Graduates 2021
Shpresa Jashari
Language as B/Order : Crossing European Borders and Boundaries through Mandatory ʻPre-Integrative Language Testingʼ (11.10.2021)
Supervised by Prof. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Gender as a Boundary Marker in Migration, Citizenship and Belonging
Legitimising exclusion through criminalisation. An ethnography of immigration detention in Switzerland (15.06.2021)
Supervised by Prof. Christin Achermann, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Restricting Immigration: Practices, Experiences and Resistance
The many faces of civil status recognition – A legal analysis in the light of EU citizenship and the case law of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights (26.05.2021)
Supervised by Profs. Jörg Künzli and Alberto Achermann, University of Bern
Project: From “Traditional” to “New” Migration: Challenges to the International Legal Migration Regime
Outsourcing asylum reception. Street-level organizations and the privatization of state action in Switzerland (11.03.2021)
Supervised by Prof.Christin Achermann, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Restricting Immigration: Practices, Experiences and Resistance
(Mis)Understanding outgroup pro-social behaviors (13.01.2021)
Supervised by Prof. Daphné Bavelier, University of Geneva
Project: Societal Norms as Predictors of Behavior and Attitudes regarding Migration among National Majorities and Immigrants
Doctoral Graduates 2020
The Human Right to Citizenship – From State Privilege to Individual Right (24.09.2020)
Supervised by Profs. Alberto Achermann and Jörg Künzli, University of Bern
Project: From “Traditional” to “New” Migration: Challenges to the International Legal Migration Regime
Legal Pluralism and Efficiency in Marriage Law (02.03.2020)
Supervised by Prof. Gerard-René de Groot, Maastricht University and Prof. Florian Eichel, University of Bern
Project: The Law and Economics of Migration Policy
Doctoral Graduates 2019
Sozialhilfe im Asylbereich zwischen Migrationskontrolle und menschenwürdiger Existenzsicherung (16.12.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Sarah Progin-Theuerkauf, University of Fribourg
Project: The Emergence of a European Law on Foreigners
Producing Knowledge and Legitimacy: Country of Origin Information in Asylum Procedures (02.12.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Christin Achermann, University of Neuchâtel
Associated to project: Restricted Immigration: Practices, Experience and Resistance
Interrelations entre trajectoires résidentielles, familiales et professionnelles: Le parcours de vie des immigrés en Suisse (18.09.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Philippe Wanner, University of Geneva
Project: Inventory of Individual Statistical Data on Migration to, from and within Switzerland in a Post-Census World
Méthodes statistiques d’analyses longitudinales dans le domaine de l’immigration. Application au parcours de vie des étudiants africains en Suisse avec l’utilisation de données administratives (10.09.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Etienne Piguet, University of Neuchâtel
Associated to project: International Student Mobility between the South and the North
Manufacturing Difference: Double Standard in Swiss Institutional Responses to Intimate Partner Violence (07.09.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Janine Dahinden and Prof. Marylène Lieber
Associated to project: Gender as a Boundary Marker in Migration, Citizenship and Belonging
Social Cohesion in Post-Migration Societies In defense of a Post-Migration Paradigm (01.07.2019)
Co-supervised by Prof. Helder de Schutter and Prof. Matteo Gianni
Project: Citizenship and Immigration: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Swiss Philosophy of Integration
Swiss Migrant Professionals in China: Middling Migration between Privilege and Marginality (01.07.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Walter Leimgruber, University of Basel
Project: The Mobility of the Highly Skilled towards Switzerland
The Esperanto of the Body. Entangled Mobilities, Gender and Ethnicity in the Transnational Salsa Circuit (26.03.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel
Associated to project: Gender as a Boundary Marker in Migration, Citizenship and Belonging
International Students in Switzerland: Trajectories, Stay Rates and Intentions for Post-Graduate Mobility (22.03.2019)
Supervised by Prof. Etienne PIGUET, University of Neuchâtel
Project: International Student Mobility between the South and the North
Doctoral Graduates 2018
Between Continuity and Change. A Psychosocial Perspective of Families in Repeated International Mobility (17.12.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Tania Zittoun, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Families in geographical itinerancy
Modeling Future Migration Trends and their Impact on the Swiss Pension System (14.11.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Philippe Wanner, University of Geneva
Project: Demographics of new forms of mobility
Doing Family on the Move: Highly-Skilled Migrants in the Lake Geneva Region (Switzerland) and the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Region (Germany) (05.11.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Gianni D’Amato, University of Neuchâtel
Associated to project: Unity and Diversity in Cohesion
Ethnic Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: Ethnic Hierarchies in Correspondence Test Results (02.11.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Gianni D’Amato, University of Neuchâtel
Project: Discrimination as an obstacle to social cohesion
Les multiples visages d’une rationalité sécuritaire dans les politiques d’asile suisses : une analyse socio-historique de la production de discours et de stratégies gouvernementales autour d’une mobilité indésirable (13.09.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Christin Achermann, University of Neuchâtel
Associated to project: Discrimination as an obstacle to social cohesion
Three Essays on the Economics of Immigration (30.08.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Tobias Müller, University of Geneva
Project: Labor market effects and the political economy of ‘new’ migration
Intermediaries, Channels and Privileges: A Journey into the Mobility of the ‘Highly Skilled’ towards Switzerland (23.05.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Walter Leimgruber, University of Basel
Project: The Mobility of the Highly Skilled towards Switzerland
Drivers of Immigrant Employment in Switzerland (08.05.2018)
Supervised by Prof. Giuliano Bonoli, University of Lausanne
Project: Integration Through Active Labor Market Policy
Faculty prize for outstanding dissertation quality
Doctoral Graduates 2017
Der Entscheid über Migration als Verfügungsrecht (17.03.2016)
Supervised by Prof. Walter Kälin, University of Bern
Project: From “Traditional” to “New” Migration: Challenges to the International Legal Migration Regime
Supervised by Prof. Philippe Wanner, University of Geneva
Project: Inventory of Individual Statistical Data on Migration to, from and within Switzerland in a Post-Census World
Doctoral Graduates 2016
Zwei empirische Studien zu aktuellen Fragestellungen der Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik (21.11.2016)
Supervised by Prof. George Sheldon, University of Basel
Project: Politico-Economic Analyses of Immigration and Integration
Causal Evidence from Discontinuities: Four Essays in Political and Public Economics (02.09.2016)
Supervised by Prof. Alois Stutzer, University of Basel
Project: Politico-Economic Analyses of Immigration and Integration
Essays on the Economics of Conflict and Migration (16.02.2016)
Supervised by Prof. Mathias Thoenig, , University of Lausanne
Project: Labor Market Effects and the Political Economy of “New” Migration to Switzerland
Supervised by Prof. Cesla Amarelle, University of CITY
Project: Unity and Diversity in Cohesion: Immigration, Citizenship and Federalism
Doctoral Graduates 2015
Drei Studien in angewandter Arbeitsmarktökonomie (17.04.2015)
Supervised by Prof. George Sheldon, University of Basel
Project: Politico-Economic Analyses of Immigration and Integration
