Training & Awards
Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award
The winners of the 2024 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award are Dr. Iva Dodevska and Dr. Uzair Ahmed. Dr. Dodevska’s dissertation entitled “Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy”, was defended at Charles University,...
In 2023, we received 63 applications for the Maria Ioannis Baganha Distinguished Dissertation Award. After due deliberation, the Award Committee decided to award prizes to two outstanding theses which received the highest scores after two rounds of...
The winner of the 2022 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Hannah Pool. Her dissertation entitled “Doing the Game”. The Moral Economy of Coming to Europe, was defended at the University of Cologne, in June 2021. Drawing on multi-sited...
The winner of the 2020 IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Simone Cremaschi. His dissertation is entitled: "Sheltered: Life and Work in Italy’s Immigrant Ghettos ". The award ceremony took place online during the 18th Imiscoe Annual...
The winner of the 2020 IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Gerhild Perl. Her dissertation, entitled: "Traces of death. Exploring affective responsiveness across the Spanish- Moroccan Sea" was defended on 28 February, 2019.
The winner of the 2019 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen. Her dissertation entitled: “Do They Belong? Host National Boundary Drawing and Immigrants’ Identificational Integration” was defended at Aarhus University...
The winner of the 2018 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Apostolos Andrikopoulos. His dissertation entitled “Argonauts of West Africa: Migration, Citizenship and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe", was defended at the University of...
His dissertation entitled “Compensatory Citizenship: A Comparative Study of Dual Nationality in Serbia, Mexico and Israel”, was defended at Princeton University in September 2016. The award ceremony will took place during the IMISCOE conference in...
Milena Belloni's dissertation entitled ‘Cosmologies of destinations: roots and routes of Eritrean forced migration toward Europe’, was defended at Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Trento in November 2015. The award ceremony took place...
His dissertation entitled “The Production and Consequence of migrant Irregularity: Senegalese in France, Italy and Spain” , was defended at Princeton University in September 2013. The award ceremony took place during the upcoming IMISCOE conference in...
The winner of the 2014 IMISCOE - Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Ruben Andersson . His dissertation entitled “ Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe ”, was defended at The London School of Economics and Political...
Alistair Hunter is the winner of the 2013 IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award. His dissertation entitled “Retirement Home? France’s Migrant Worker Hostels and the Dilemma of Late-in-Life Return” , was defended at the University of Edinburgh...
Zana Vathi , of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, won the award in 2012. Her dissertation – entitled ‘The Children of Albanian Migrants in Europe: Ethnic Identity, Transnational Ties and Pathways of Integration’ – is part...
The winner of the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award 2011 is Dr. Justus Uitermark from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dr. Uitermark obtained his PhD in 2010 from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of...
The winner of the first IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr. Juljana Vullnetari from the Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex, UK. Her manuscript, entitled Dynamics between Internal and International...