Dr. Ioana Vrăbiescu is an organisational ethnographer working at the intersection of climate-induced displacement, migration control, and policing. She leads the projects AMALTHEA (Horizon Europe), examining the gendered dimensions of radicalisation and extremism; ESCC-Water on the climate migration nexus, with a focus on India; and Affective Borders (NWO), which explores the role of ethical emotions in migration governance. Since 2026, she has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Social Identities Journal and as an editorial board member of Migration and Development Journal. Previously, she was a visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research, and she held research and teaching positions at the University of Warwick and the University of Amsterdam. Ioana has conducted an extensive multi-sited ethnography on policing, deportation, and social service infrastructures across Europe. Her book Deporting Europeans (2021) and her articles in JEMS, City, Identities, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Social Anthropology reflect a strong interdisciplinary profile. She serves on the boards of the Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR), ReSCU Lab, the Gender Research Network (VU), EASA, and H-Migration.
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