Migration and Cities : Conceptual and Policy Advances

Melissa Kelly is Research Fellow, CERC Migration, Ryerson University, Canada. She was a Research Associate at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research in Uppsala and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Borders in Globalization project at Carleton University. She holds a PhD in social and economic geography from Uppsala University in Sweden. Her research interests include comparative immigration policy, the social and economic integration of immigrants, and immigration to rural and remote areas. She is currently looking at the factors influencingimmigrant retention in small and medium-sized cities in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario.

Amin Moghadam is Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, Ryerson University, Canada. He holds a PhD in human geography and urban studies from the Lumière Lyon 2 University. His research and publications have focused on migration policy and practices, diaspora studies, and circulation and regional integration in the Middle East, with a focus on the Persian Gulf region (Iran and United Arab Emirates). Amin acted as Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University between 2016 and 2020. Prior to this position, he was a Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, Aix-Marseille University, and at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. Amin’s current research explores ways in which the dynamics of space production in global cities intersect with the politics of housing and home making and the role both forces play in migration trajectories, transnational practices, and class formation in the host society.

Zeynep S. Mencütek is Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies, Germany, where she leads a comparative project on return and reintegration. She is also Research Affiliate with CERC Migration, Ryerson University, conducting joint research on transnational governance of migration. She held the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (June 2020–May 2021) and an international fellowship at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg (2019–2020). She also served as Senior Researcher for the Horizon 2020 project RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor in Turkey, and in 2018 achieved the rank of Docent in the field of international relations. Her research examines the governance of migration, return migration, diaspora politics and Middle Eastern politics. She received her PhD in politics and international relations from the University of Southern California in 2011.