Dr. Katherine Kuschminder

Dr. Katie Kuschminder is an Assistant Professor at UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University. She has recently completed a NWO Rubicon scholarship as a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Her project at the EUI is a comparative analysis of Eritrean and Nigerian migrants decision making factors in Italy. 

Katie has been working in research for the past ten years and has worked on or managed migration projects for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection Irregular Migration Research Group, German Development Cooperation, ILO, IOM, and UNHCR. Katie teaches in the MSc in Public Policy and Human Development, the Migration Management Diploma Programme, and coordinates the Migration Studies course at the University College Maastricht. Katie's main research interests are in the areas of migration and development, return and reintegration, irregular migrants journeys and migration governance.

Selected publications by Katherine Kuschminder