Sarah Spencer - Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges

is a Professor for Social Foundations of Social Work in the Department of Social Welfare at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. He is Editor of movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies . He has been Visiting Professor in the field of Politics of Labor Migration at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests are in the areas of citizenship studies, migration policies, social movements, and social policies within Europe and Turkey. His recent publications include Local Responses in Restrictive National Policy Contexts: Welfare Provisions for Non-removed Rejected Asylum Seekers in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Vienna inEthnic and Racial Studies(2020, with T. Schtze and V. Reitter); special issue on Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control special issue inJournal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies(2019, with S. Rosenberger); and The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins inCitizenship Studies(2016, with K. Rygiel and M. Stierl).

is Researcher and DTM Focal Point for the International Organization for Migration in Rome. She coordinates the implementation of the Displacement Tracking Matrix operations in Italy and supports DTM operations in the Mediterranean region with a specific focus on research on migrants vulnerabilities to exploitation and human trafficking along their journeys to Europe. She was Research Associate at the European University Institutes Global Governance Programme between 2011 and 2016, where she worked on migrants labor market integration in Southern European countries and participated in the GlobalStat project. She has previously worked for research consultancies and NGOs. She completed her MSc degree in Development Economics from the University of Florence and her Masters in Public Policy and Social Change from the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin (Italy). Her recent publications include Exploring the Links Between Enhancing Regular Pathways and Discouraging Irregular Migration (with A. Triandafyllidou and C. F. Guidi, IOM 2019), Migrant Vulnerability to Human Trafficking and Exploitation: Evidence from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Migration Routes (with E. Galos, H. Cook, and N. Grant, IOM 2017), Drivers of Highly Skilled Mobility from Southern Europe: Escaping the Crisis and Emancipating Oneself (with A. Triandafyllidou and R. Gropas, JEMS 2017), and Southern European Highly Skilled Female Migrants in Male-Dominated Sectors in Times of Crisis: A Look into the IT and Engineering Sectors (with R. Gropas in A. Triandafyllidou and I. Isaakyan, Palgrave 2015).