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Acknowledging Migrants` Experiences in Policymaking

Migrants’ experiences must be reflected in migration-related policies. This panel explores how the consideration of the intersectional realities of mobile people can be acknowledged in policymaking. It asks how best to strengthen the participation of migrants in processes that directly affect them so that policymaking reflects and responds to their reality. 

15:00–16:30                                   

Panellists

  • Osman Bahadır Dinçer, bicc
  • Elizabeth Ferris, Georgetown University
  • Shaza Alrihawi, Global Refugee-led Network (GRN) and Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL)

Chair: Terry Martin, journalist

Our Panelists

Osman Bahadir Dinçer

Before joining the bicc team in 2020, Osman Bahadir Dinçer was a Research Excellence Fellow at Central European University (CEU), where he worked as an associated post-doctoral research fellow for the project Striking from the Margins: Religion, State, and Disintegration in the Middle East. Engaged in research at the International Strategic Research Organization (USAK) between 2005 and 2016, Bahadir acted as the Director of the organisation’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies after 2012. As a comparative political scientist, he has focused his research on Middle Eastern politics with particular reference to the state, violent and non-violent non-state actors, social and political movements, democratisation, and Turkish foreign policy. He has authored/co-authored numerous articles, reports, and policy papers for various research institutions. Bahadir holds a PhD in Political Science from Bilkent University, Ankara (2016) and a master’s degree from the School of International Service at the American University, Washington DC (2008).

 

 

Elizabeth Ferris

Elizabeth Ferris is the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also an ISIM Research Professor at Georgetown. She joined ISIM in Fall 2015 after serving for 9 years as a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement and as an adjunct professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. In 2016, she served as senior advisor to the UN Secretary-General  in planning the Global Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants which led to the development of the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants. See her full bio in the panel on “The Missing Peace”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shaza Alrihawi

Shaza Alrihawi completed her Master’s degree in Sociology at the University of Damascus in Syria in 2006. From 2006 to 2014, she worked at UNHCR Syria, where she dealt with cases of sexual and gender-based violence. Today, Shaza Alrihawi lives in Germany and has been working as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) since 2017. Shaza Alrihawi is a co-founder of various organizations, including the Global Refugee-led Network (GRN). She is committed to strengthening the co-determination rights of refugees. Shaza Alrihawi represents numerous global and regional refugee initiatives, has contributed to reports and participated as a panelist at renowned platforms such as the Oxford Refugee Studies Center.

 

 

Terry Martin

Terry Martin is a Berlin-based journalist and TV news anchor with decades of experience in international news. Formerly an anchor with CNN International, he is now Senior Anchor with DW News, Germany’s global service. He is also the Founder and Director of the research communications agency SPIA. As a television correspondent, he has provided live coverage from G7 summits, UN climate conferences, and multiple national elections. He has hosted scores of tv discussion programs and interviewed countless political and business leaders, scientists, and activists around the world. In 2010, he wrote the European Commission’s widely used guidebook “Communicating research for evidence-based policymaking”. Born in Canada, he studied English and philosophy at universities in the US (B.A. Elon College, Masters degree Wake Forest University) before moving to Germany shortly after the fall of The Berlin Wall.