Comparative Migration Studies

MEET THE CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Peter Scholten is full professor in the governance of migration and diversity at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus center on Governance of Migration and Diversity and coordinator of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities. From 2014 to 2022, Peter also was coordinator of the IMISCOE research network. He has published extensively on themes as multi-level governance, urban inclusion and anti-discrimination, and on the development of migration studies as a research field. See www.peterscholten.eu

Sanam Roohi has taken over the role of co-editor in chief of Comparative Migration Studies. She is an associate fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen. Her work encompasses the themes of social-spatial mobility linkages, embodied migration infrastructures and transnational resource flows. Roohi has published widely on these themes and is currently working on a book project on the pursuit of the American Dream by South Asian tech professionals. Roohi has held various fellowships including KWI International Fellowship (2023), Alexander von Humboldt (2020-2023), Marie Curie COFUND (2018 - August 2020), and SSRC InterAsia (2018) Fellowships. She was a visiting research fellow at the University of Sussex’s School of Global Studies in 2022. Previously, Roohi worked as an assistant professor at St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore (2016 – 2018). She is a working group leader of COST Action European Network on International  Student Mobility, and a member of various academic bodies.