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Leila Hadj-Abdou

Part time Assistant Professor, Migration Policy Centre & Lecturer in Politics, University of Vienna, European University Institute

Leila Hadj Abdou, is Part-Time Assistant Professor at the Migration Policy Centre at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute. Previous to this appointment she has already worked for several years at the MPC as a Research Fellow. She currently also holds the position of Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna where she conducts research and lectures in the field of migration, EU, and Austrian politics. Previously she also held academic positions at the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Sheffield. In addition to her academic positions, she held project manager positions for an NGO in 2016 working with unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, and in an educational centre in 2017 working with adult refugees and refugee care workers. She is editorial board member of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), and Editorial College Member of the journal Migration Politics. She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute