
Shaddin Almasri, MSc
- shaddin.almasri@donau-uni.ac.at
- +43 2732 893-2432
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- Campus Krems, Tract V, 1st Floor, V.E1.04
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Department for Migration and Globalisation
- Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
- 3500 Krems
- Austria
Functions
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
About the person
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
Projects (Extract Research Database)
Smart Migration and Asylum Governance (SMAG)
Publications (Extract Research Database)
Almasri, S. (2021). The Political Economy of Nationality-Based Labor Inclusion Strategies: A Case Study of the Jordan Compact. Middle East Critique, Volume 30, Issue 2: 185-203
Almasri, S. (2021). Power, Protection and Policy: The Condition of Domestic Workers in the Arab States during COVID-19. In: Diab, J. L.; Dharani, U. B., Female Migrant Labourers and COVID-19 in Asia: 10-12, Global Research Network, Canterbury, UK
Almasri, S. (2021). Book review: "Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities". MIgration & (Im)mobility Magazine / Routed, 18: n/a, n/a
Lectures (Extract Research Database)
Austerity in the MENA region and post-COVID social protection
MAJALAT EU Southern Neighborhood Policy Seminar: For a Shift of the Post-Covid19 Development Paradigm, 30/11/2021
Female Migrant Labourers and COVID-19 in Asia
Global Research Network War, Conflict and Global Migration Think Tank, 05/11/2021
The European Union’s response to the refugee situation in Afghanistan
What role for the EU Pact on Migration and the UN Global Compact on Refugees?; Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 17/09/2021
Refugee Inclusion -- for whom? A Case Study of the Influence of Aid Politics on Refugee Inclusion Strategies in the Jordan Compact
IMISCOE Annual Conference on “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”, 08/07/2021
A Critique of Nationality-Based Aid [Protection?] and Inclusion Policy
EuroMedMig "Mediterranean Migration Studies: Theoretical and Empirical Research Agenda", 28/06/2021
Gender, COVID and labour: Politics and policy of domestic work during lockdowns
The COVID-19 impacts on migration and migrants from a gender perspective’ Inception Workshop, International Organization for Migration, 14/06/2021