Radboud University was founded on 17 October 1923 under the name Catholic University Nijmegen. The Dutch Catholic population planned to use its university to promote the emancipation of Catholics in the Netherlands who, at that time, were strongly under-represented in such areas as public administration, the legal profession and the medical sector. Our university wants to contribute to a free and healthy world with equal opportunities for all and to make a significant impact on a regional and an international level.

Radboud University's special identity gives students, staff and alumni the opportunity to develop in special ways. This happens in the various institutes, centres and associations that make up the wider Radboud community.  


Joris Schapendonk

Joris Schapendonk is Associate Professor at the Geography, Planning and Environment  department of Radboud University and an active member of Nijmegen Centre for Border  Research (NCBR). As a critical geographer, he aims to contribute to discussions around  mobility, borders and reflexivity in the field of migration studies. His most recent work  concentrates on European mobility regimes, migrants’ alternative infrastructures, and  academic backstages. His latest monography Finding Ways Through Eurospace is published  by Berhahn Books (2020) and he recently co-edited a critical Handbook on Irregular  Migration, published by Elgar (2023).

joris.schapendonk@ru.nl


Nora Stel

Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies with expertise on qualitative methods, local  governance in conflict-affected settings, critical security studies, and migration and border  studies. Nora has specialized in the epistemic politics of displacement, currently focusing on  the transnational governance of Syrian refugee returns from Lebanon, Jordan and Türkiye.  Her research has been funded by, among others, the Dutch Research Council, the European  Commission, the Swiss Network for International Studies, and Yale University. Nora has  published over twenty academic peer-reviewed articles including in Development and  Change, Antipode, Political Geography and Security Dialogue. Her book Hybrid Political Order  and the Politics of Uncertainty – Refugee Governance in Lebanon was published with  Routledge in 2020.

nora.stel@ru.nl


Tineke Strik

Professor of Citizenship and Migration Law occupying the chair of Sociology and Migration  Law at Radboud University. Since July 2019, Tineke is a Member of the European Parliament:  member LIBE committee (Civil liberties, justice and home affairs), AFET (foreign affairs) and  DROI (human rights). Tineke's focus in her work as a MEP is on Migration and Asylum  Policies, citizenship and the Rule of Law. A thread through both of these policy fields is the  protection of EU Values and Fundamental Rights. Some of her priorities are ensuring that  Member States and EU agencies, such as Frontex, respect basic human rights including the  right to asylum and the principle of non-refoulment at the EU's external borders;  safeguarding that the European Union respects its own values and human rights standards  when engaging in external action; pushing for the respect of the Rule of Law by EU Member  States, and ensuring that basic rights such as citizens' access to an independent judiciary, equal treatment and minority rights are respected and promoted.

tineke.strik@ru.nl


Marieke van Houte

Marieke van Houte is a Senior Researcher at the Geography, Planning and Environment  department of Radboud University, Nijmegen. Her research and teaching is about human  migration and (im)mobility as a source of identity, power and inequality - in the context of  development, conflict, and change, and both from the perspective of migrants and  governance. Return migration is a key theme in her work, alongside transnational  engagement of migrants, and processes of structure and agency in (im)mobility. Her work is  grounded in empirical fieldwork in a variety of contexts and she specializes in qualitative,  (co-)creative and participatory methods. Her long-term goal is to contribute to more  sustainable solutions to complex social issues through solid and just knowledge production.  Her book Return Migration to Afghanistan: Moving Back or Moving Forward? was published  by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Her work on (return) migration has also been published in  leading (migration) journals, including Migration Studies, International Migration Review,  Population, Space and Place, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Identities, and  Conflict, Security and Development. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marieke-van-houte-17889739

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8140-4618

marieke.vanhoute@ru.nl


Sherry Ebrahim

PhD candidate at the Geography, Planning and Environment department of Radboud  University. Holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and Governance of Migration  and Diversity from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Bachelor’s degree in Political Science  and Public Administration from Cairo University. Sherry is interested in studying return  migration policies and practices from different actors’ perspectives and in the policies’  discrepancies/gaps. 

Sherry is RU team’s first communication point in matters regarding social media, posting,  content, etc.



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