Mercator Fellow, Guests and Associated Researchers
Yassine Ben Mokhtar
Visiting Fellow
Yassine Ben Mokhtar
Visiting Fellow in June/July 2024
Yassine Ben Mokhtar is an emerging scholar in Political Science and International Relations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Rabat and two Master’s degrees: one in Administrative and Judicial Careers from IEP Grenoble, and another in Geostrategy, Defense, and International Security from IEP d’Aix-en-Provence. Currently, Yassine is a doctoral researcher in Political Science at the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR) under the mentorship of Professors Mehdi ALIOUA and Yousra ABOURABI. His research focuses on the African Migration Observatory, technical office of the African Union Commission in Rabat, aiming to enhance the understanding of migration policies and governance in Africa and their global impact. He is also a member of the Chaire Migrations, Mobilités et Cosmopolitisme and involved in the international project GO GREEN.
PhD student
Social media: www.linkedin.com/in/yassine-b-m
Email: yassine.benmokhtar@uir.ac.ma
Dr Annett Bochmann
Associated Researcher
Dr Annett Bochmann
Associated Researcher
Annett Bochmann is a sociologist at the Institute of Social Science at Humboldt University of Berlin and a former researcher in subproject 2 of the Research Unit. Her research focuses on the intersections of global sociology, political and legal sociology, as well as mobility, camp, and border studies. In her research she combines her interests in social theory with empirical insights gained through qualitative methods, especially long-term ethnographic fieldwork, interaction, and discourse analysis.
Unter den Linden 6
Department of Social Sciences
Macrosociology
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
D-10099 Berlin
Email: annett.bochmann@hu-berlin.de
Homepage: : https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/bochmann/
Dr Amrita Datta
Associated Researcher
Dr Amrita Datta
Associated Researcher
Amrita Datta is the author of Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). A Sociologist, Amrita’s research focuses primarily on transnational migration, (im)mobility and new migration. Currently, she is based at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld. Amrita is also a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle and an Associate Member at the Global South Studies Centre (GSSC), Cologne. At the University of Bielefeld, she teaches a course titled “What is new in new migration”. Earlier, she was Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Department for Sociology, University of Siegen. Amrita’s other research interests include: gender-mobility/migration interface, migration uncertainties, and reflexivity in migration research.
Gebäude X D2-213
Universitätsstraße 25
University of Bielefeld
D-33615 Bielefeld
Phone: –
Email: amrita.datta@uni-bielefeld.de
Homepage: https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=433434462
Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu
Visiting Fellow
Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu
Visiting Fellow in May 2024
Laavanya Kathiravelu is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research is at the intersections of international migration, race and ethnic studies and contemporary urban diversity, particularly in Asia and the Persian Gulf. Her first book was Migrant Dubai (Palgrave, 2016), which explored experiences of low wage migrant workers in the UAE. She has also published widely on issues of race, inequality and migration in Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She was also a Fung Fellow at Princeton University between 2015-16. In 2019, she was recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (SSHRF) and recognised as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in the area of academic leadership. Laavanya is board member of migrant welfare organisation, HOME as well as civil society group AWARE, whose aim is to advance gender equality. She comments regularly on public forums and through op-eds on issues of migration, race and diversity in Singapore. In 2022, she was a Fulbright Scholar based at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education
School of Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Social media: @laavy_k
Email: laavanyak@ntu.edu.sg
Dr Jill E. Kelly
Visiting Fellow
Dr Jill E. Kelly
Visiting Fellow in May 2024
Jill E. Kelly is a historian of gender, violence, and traditional authority in South Africa and the author of To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Authority, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 (Michigan State University Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2018). Her current manuscript project is an intellectual history of rural women’s anti-apartheid activism. She also is PI on a new Global Oral History of PEPFAR. Her research has been supported by an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholar Award. She is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA and a Research Associate at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Associate Professor
Clements Department of History
Southern Methodist University
Email: jillk@smu.edu
Homepage: https://www.smu.edu/dedman/academics/departments/history/people/facultystaff/jillkelly
Prof Dr Habibul Khondker
Mercator Fellow
Prof Dr Habibul Khondker
Mercator Fellow
Professor of Sociology
Habibul Khondker (PhD, Pittsburgh) is professor of sociology at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Co-Chair of Research Committee 9 (Social Transformations and Sociology of Development) of the International Sociological Association. His research is on social inequality, glocalization, globalization, Asian globalization, cricket, migration, migration governance, secularism, democracy, new media, and social transformation. He has co-edited The Emergence of Bangladesh (Springer, 2022) with Muurlink and Ali, Covid-19 and Governance (Routledge, 2021) with Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Haeran Lim. He co-authored Globalization: East/West. (Sage, 2010; Turkish translation 2018) with Bryan Turner and co-edited Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, and Nations (Brill 2006) with Goran Therborn and 21st Century Globalization: Perspectives from the Gulf. (Zayed University Press, 2010) with Jan Nederveen Pieterse.
Email: Habibul.khondker@zu.ac.ae
Dr Jonathan Ngeh
Associated Researcher
Dr Jonathan Ngeh
Associated Researcher
Jonathan Ngeh is a postdoc associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Cologne and principal investigator at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) in Cologne. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Umeå with a dissertation on the everyday experiences of African migrants in Sweden. His current research projects include ‘Debates on “trafficking in persons and slavery” in Cameroon’ and ‘Communication during and after COVID-19: (re)producing social inequalities and/or opportunities among African migrants in the United Arab Emirates’ (with Prof. Dr Michaela Pelican). He has a forthcoming paper in Ethnography 2022 entitled ‘’Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences’. The piece discusses everyday life in overcrowded migrant accommodations and how they cope with deplorable housing conditions. Before moving to the GSSC in 2019, Jonathan taught development theory and policy courses at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon.
Classen-Kappelmann Strasse 24
Global South Studies Center
University of Cologne
D-50931 Cologne
Phone: +49 (0)221-470 76641
Email: jngeh@uni-koeln.de
Homepage: https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/personen/mitglieder/ngeh-dr-jonathan