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Parker Aguilera

Visiting Researcher

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parker.aguilera(at)bicc.de

Expertise

Research Topics / Key Expertise

Return Migration and Reintegration; Conflict- and Climate-Induced Displacement; Social and Material Reconstruction; Development Policy in Fragile Contexts

Countries Of Expertise

  • Syria,
  • Germany,
  • United States of America,
  • South Sudan,
  • Sudan,
  • Ethiopia,
  • Rwanda,
  • Myanmar

Professional Career

Parker Aguilera is a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, where she contributes to the Return and Belonging after Conflict Induced Displacement (RE-MIG), Reconnecting after Displacement (RECONNECT), and Youth at a Crossroads (MAPS) projects.

Parker holds an M.A. in International Migration and Refugee Studies from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she also earned a certificate in Global Human Development, and a B.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin. Her previous experience includes serving as a fellow with the United Nations Development Programme’s Bureau for Africa, where she worked on human mobility, resilience, and displacement-related challenges in sub Saharan Africa, and contributing to atrocity prevention research in the MENA region at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide.