Personal statement

My Research interests bring together the areas of international and EU migration law, migration governance, human rights law, vulnerability theory and citizenship. My research is multidisciplinary and has a strong socio-legal dimension.

I have extensively published in the areas of migrants’ social and economic rights, with a focus on irregular migrants and asylum seekers’ right to health care; migrants and the European Convention on Human Rights; human rights and migration governance; vulnerability theory and migration law and policy; EU asylum law and policy; migrants and citizenship; and refugee integration.

I have conducted research projects with the Scottish Refugee Council and the British Red Cross in the area of migrants and asylum seekers’ rights.

I was a visiting scholar at the University of Montreal and the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

I am a member of the editorial board of Laws.

I represent the University of Strathclyde on the Board of Directors of the Glasgow-based Ethnic Minorities Law Centre in my capacity as Special Director.

I currently teach European Union Law (undergraduate core class on LLB and BA programmes) and International Migration Law (postgraduate class).

I am a member of the Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe (SULNE).

I was the Director for Postgraduate Research in the Law School from 2015 to 2020. 

I welcome applications for postgraduate research (PhD and MPhil) in the following areas:

-          Migrants’ human rights.

-          EU asylum and migration laws and policies.

-          Migration governance.

-          International migration law.

-          International refugee law.

-          Refugee and migrant integration.   

-          EU citizenship.

-          Social and economic rights.