The winners of the 2026 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award are: Dr. Emilia Helen Melossi with a dissertation entitled “Red gold and black labour: Sub-Saharan migrants’ struggles for survival in the rural ghettos of Southern Italy”, defended at the...
The winner of the 2025 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Dr Kurt W. Kuehne with the work “Lives in Limbo: Precarity, Control and Temporary Migrant Workers in the Global City”, defended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2023....
The winners of the 2024 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award are Dr. Iva Dodevska and Dr. Uzair Ahmed. Dr. Dodevska’s dissertation entitled “Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy”, was defended at Charles University,...
In 2023, we received 63 applications for the Maria Ioannis Baganha Distinguished Dissertation Award. After due deliberation, the Award Committee decided to award prizes to two outstanding theses which received the highest scores after two rounds of...
The winner of the 2022 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award is Hannah Pool. Her dissertation entitled “Doing the Game”. The Moral Economy of Coming to Europe, was defended at the University of Cologne, in June 2021. Drawing on multi-sited...
