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Dr. Ioana Vrăbiescu is a Senior Assistant Professor at the VU Amsterdam. She currently works on the intersection of climate change and human and more-than-human forced mobility (PI, Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change / ESCC-Water), focusing on India, and the role of ethical emotions in migration control (PI, Affective Borders). Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research (New York) and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick and the University of Amsterdam. She conducted multi-sited fieldwork alongside the policing and deportation apparatus in France, the UK, and Romania, as well as ethnographic research with social services and organisations for migration management in Spain, among others. She is an active member of several professional networks, such as DAMR (Dutch Association for Migration Research), Migration and Diversity Research Centre (VU), ReSCU Lab, EASA, H-Migration, and others.

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • H Social Sciences
  • mobility
  • Migration Studies
  • policing migration
  • Police/policing
  • borders
  • Citizenship
  • Gender and Politics
  • racism
  • Gender
  • Intersectionality
  • Deportation, Human Smuggling, Human Trafficking, Migration and Development, Migration Control, Migration and Social Protection
  • belonging
  • Diversity
  • integration
  • EU
  • Criminology
  • Inequality
  • bureaucracy
  • state
  • India
  • Climate change

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