Shaddin Almasri, MSc

Shaddin Almasri is a PhD candidate in the Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education under the Smart Migration and Asylum Governance project.

• Co-coordinator of “Migration Policy and Governance” Research Cluster
• Global Research Network Associate of ‘War, Conflict and Migration’ Think Tank

Shaddin Almasri is a Jordanian-American PhD candidate based in Krems, Austria. Her research interests are in aid policy, development, and refugee labour integration with a regional focus on the Middle East. Previously, she held research and advocacy roles at Oxfam in Jordan and at the WANA Institute, a local Jordanian think tank. She holds an MSc Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London and a BA Economics from the American University of Sharjah. She is currently a PhD Migration Studies candidate at the University for Continuing Education, where she is researching nationality-based discrimination in refugee aid and inclusion policies across Jordan, Turkey and Ethiopia.

Her specific research interests include:

• Aid discrimination and minority refugee populations
• Stratification in labor migration policy and social protection structures
• Refugee self-reliance mechanisms
• Climate migration drivers and responses