The Routed Team
Shaddin Almasri
Editor
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Shaddin is a postdoctoral researcher focused on inequalities between refugee and migrant groups of varying backgrounds. She is particularly interested in the interactions between aid, development, and refugee/migrant integration, with a specific focus on the SWANA and East Africa regions. She takes a keen interest in refugee policy in the Global South and is currently exploring the intersection of scale of refugee and migrant arrival, rights, and temporality, and the impact this has on determining refugee admission and integration policy. She holds a PhD in Migration Studies from Danube University Krems and a MSc Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London.
Hannah Markay
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Hannah is a dual American-British citizen who grew up moving around Europe. She has worked with the U.S government, UNHCR, and various INGOs and local organizations that support inclusion in humanitarian assistance and durable solutions for refugees. She holds a LLM in Public International Law from the University of Oslo (thank you, pandemic!) and an MSc. in Refugee and Forced Migration from the University of Oxford where she focused on children displaced by climate disasters and civil society-led complementary pathways for refugees in Lebanon. She is currently working on some mobility of her own to move to Australia. She is a serial beginner of weird and wonderful hobbies and still questioning what it means to be a hospitality-accepting vegetarian.
Lilian Ebere Anazube
Editor and Website editor
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Lilian is a Sociology PhD student at Northwestern University and holds a Master’s degree in Migration and Intercultural Relations from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her research explores how migration shapes gendered inequalities, belonging, and the everyday experiences of transnational families. She also serves as Co-Lead of the Youth Engagement Academy at the Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice (CMGJ), contributing to youth-led, gender-responsive migration research and global policy dialogues.
Fiona Buchanan
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Fiona has worked for both the Australian and UK governments for over 10 years as a social policy adviser, including on migration, gender equality and LGBTIQA+ inclusion. She has an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, where her research centred on the politics of gender in refugee resettlement. She also has an interest in refugee community sponsorship schemes, efforts to combat human trafficking, and the rights of LGBTIQA+ asylum seekers. Currently on a working holiday in the USA where Fiona is enjoying learning Spanish, she is passionate about mutual aid and ensuring policies and systems can support all parts of the community.
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Lena Hartz
Editor & Newsletter coordinator
Lena grew up in Luxembourg. She completed an M.A. in International Relations and Literature in a World Context at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and spent a year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During her MSc in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, her research focused on EU development and migration politics in West Africa and its colonial legacies. Because she is passionate about finding better ways to live together, she did another MSc in Global Ethics and Justice. After working in Senegal for two years, she is now a socio-cultural facilitator specialising in intercultural community building in Luxembourg. In her free time, Lena loves to travel, read, dance and volunteer with her local scout group.
Margaret (Markéta) Koudelkova
Editor, Communications coordinator & Selection coordinator
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Margaret grew up in a small town in the Czech Republic. She graduated from the University of Oxford with an MSc in Migration Studies in 2018. Her time in academia started at Charles University in Prague with a degree in International Area Studies, she also spent one year in Leeds as an Erasmus exchange student, and recently obtained a Foundation in Architecture degree from RIBA. Margaret is currently working for a non-profit in the South of England, with most of her spare time taken up seeking inspiration from well-designed public spaces (and campaigning to achieve more), art in many mobile & static forms, and keeping an eye out for as-yet-unread J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpieces.
Chrysi Kyratsou
Communications officer
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Dr Chrysi Kyratsou is an Anthropologist of Music and Sound, currently experiencing the academic mobilities of a Postdoctoral Researcher. Her special research interests focus on the entanglements of (forced) migration and creative expressions, cultural flows, (non-)belonging, the dialogues between cultural and human (im)mobilities, and the potentials for multiple inclusions fostered through humans' agentive courses of action. When not researching, writing or teaching on such topics, she enjoys travelling, hiking, yoking and musicking.
Javier Ormeno
Spanish editor
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With a philosophy background, Javier got involved in humanitarian action around the globe, working for the Red Cross Movement between 2008 and 2019. His MA in Human Rights (UCL) was an opportunity to reconnect with academia and articulate his experience. His research links arts and justice (including transitional justice, LGBT+, migration rights, and identity). Besides being involved with the Theatre of Transformation, he is Research Tutor for Diplo Foundation. His interest in performance and pottery seems to be somehow related to his self-declared addiction to matcha.
Isaac Burdett Brewer
Editor and Website editor
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Isaac comes from a small town in the North West of England. He is a Masters student in International Migration and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. His main research interests centre around immigrants’ labour market integration and the role and limits of immigration policy in addressing labour shortages. He has recently joined a research project that is exploring the impact of No Recourse to Public Funds on immigrant children’s health and development in the United Kingdom. He especially enjoys football, walking, and drinking excessive amounts of lattes.
Woopi Takarasima
Editor & Communications officer
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Woopi is originally from Zimbabwe but grew up in Eswatini. She completed her studies at the African Leadership University with a B.A. (Hons) in Global Challenges, focusing on Governance and Education Accessibility for refugee students. With a mission to use strategic communications, storytelling and advocacy to advance the impact of innovative organisations, in her postgraduate studies, she plans to explore the role of strategic communications in reshaping attitudes towards forcibly displaced individuals for improved integration systems.
Sarah Etter
Editor and Research officer
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Sarah grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her wonderful parents and four brothers. Lancaster’s diverse and artistic community led her to an interest in migration and culture. She has her undergraduate degree in International Studies and is currently pursuing a masters degree in International Relations, with particular interest in sustainable development, conflict prevention, and migration. In her professional research life, she has investigated economic history, protest movements, terrorism, and election transparency. In her free time, she loves reading, rock climbing, motor sports, and cinema, and hopes to learn as many languages as possible.
Charles Mbatsogo
Editor & Communications officer
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Dr Charles Simplice Mbatsogo Mebo is a junior researcher specialised in migration governance in sub-Saharan Africa. He is a laureate and graduate of the YALI (Young African Leadership Initiative) Programme and holds a double master's degree in Geopolitics and International Relations from the Academy of Diplomacy of Cameroon (IRIC) where he grew up as well as a PhD from the University of Poitiers (France). Charles has over 5 years of experience in corporate communication, project management, creative writing, data collection and analysis, leading to various scientific publications in the field of return migration and development, as well as international communications and positions. He is currently working for a non-profit in Paris (France). In his free time, Charles loves travelling, exploring new cultures and sharing good vibes but also painting landscapes and writing song lyrics and scripts for musicals.
Charles Mbatsogo
Editor & Communications officer
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Dr Charles Simplice Mbatsogo Mebo is a junior researcher specialised in migration governance in sub-Saharan Africa. He is a laureate and graduate of the YALI (Young African Leadership Initiative) Programme and holds a double master's degree in Geopolitics and International Relations from the Academy of Diplomacy of Cameroon (IRIC) where he grew up as well as a PhD from the University of Poitiers (France). Charles has over 5 years of experience in corporate communication, project management, creative writing, data collection and analysis, leading to various scientific publications in the field of return migration and development, as well as international communications and positions. He is currently working for a non-profit in Paris (France). In his free time, Charles loves travelling, exploring new cultures and sharing good vibes but also painting landscapes and writing song lyrics and scripts for musicals.
Idil Asan
Editor
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Idil is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Politics and International Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of migration and translation studies, exploring the role of translation in migrant access to aid and rights and its potential for solidarity building in Turkey. Idil’s professional journey spans diverse fields, including international protection, academic research and teaching, and creative collaborations with social enterprises. She holds a BA in International Relations and an MPhil in Development Studies. While she spent the majority of her years moving from one place to another, for now, she resides in Turkey, where she was born.
Gabriella Mikiewicz
Online & digital coordinator
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Gabriella Mikiewicz is a social impact and communications professional with an academic background in migration studies and intercultural relations from the Erasmus Mundus program EMMIR. Her experience spans a diverse range of areas, from strategy development and fundraising to curriculum development and community management, earning her the moniker of a 'jack of all trades.' She has worked and lived in various countries, including the United States, South Africa, Lithuania, and is now based in Norway.
Laurisa Sastoque
Web editor
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Laurisa Sastoque is a Digital Preservation Training Officer at the University of Southampton where she works to provide guidance to institutions in the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) on their digital preservation practices. She recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Digital Humanities as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, where her dissertation work encompassed digital mapping and the Colombian diaspora. She participated in the 2024 Oxford Migration Conference, after which she decided to join the Routed Magazine's website team. She has previously been a Media Editor for The Scholar Magazine. Laurisa is originally from Bogotá, Colombia, and also lived in Evanston, Illinois where she completed her undergraduate degree in History, Creative Writing and Data Science (Minor) at Northwestern University. In her spare time, Laurisa enjoys travelling, hanging out at coffee shops, and daydreaming about the dog that she will (one day) adopt.
Ritwika Patgiri
Web editor
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Ritwika Patgiri is a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Economics, at South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. She has a Masters in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and a BA in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. Her PhD is on Rural Transformation and the Non-Farm Sector in Assam. She has previously worked with The Himalaya Collective, an open-source platform for individuals and organisations living and working in the Himalayan states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Patgiri was the coordinator of the Western Himalayan Vikalp Sangam, and looked over the coordination of the various Western Himalayan organisations, documentation of work, drafting policy briefs, and compiled the report Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People: Pandemic Resilience in the Western Himalayas. She has also received the Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grants for Young Researchers from the Northeast for 2020-2021. Her research interests include rural transformation, migration, poverty, inequality, and feminist economics.
Isabel Rose Soloaga
Editor and Digital lead
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Isabel Rose Soloaga is a documentary filmmaker and Research Fellow in Law at the University of Sussex. Her work explores the intersections of human rights, climate migration, and gender, bridging scholarship with powerful storytelling to amplify the voices of people on the move. A UC Berkeley alumna with an MA in Migration and Global Development from the University of Sussex, she has published peer-reviewed research in Frontiers in Human Dynamics and is a co-author of Decolonising Queer Migration: Perspectives of Iranians in Exile (Bristol University Press). Her award-winning films have screened internationally and her debut poetry collection, Home is Where (Finishing Line Press), is forthcoming. She draws on extensive fieldwork in refugee camps and homeless encampments across Europe and the U.S. to bring an interdisciplinary approach that connects critical scholarship with accessible, public-facing narratives on (im)mobility.