Meet our team:
Anatolie Coșciug is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His doctoral research on transnational trade with second-hand goods imported from Western Europe to Romania by Romanian migrants is supervised by Thomas Faist (University of Bielefeld) and Alejandro Portes (Princeton University). He is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of Sibiu and executive director of the Romanian Center for Comparative Migration Studies at the UBB University in Cluj. In DIASPOlitic he conducts interviews with Romanian migrants in Oslo.
Angelina Kussy is an anthropologist and ethnographer. She holds a Master of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology degree from the University of Warsaw. Recipient of the Catalan's government grant (FI AGAUR) to write doctoral thesis on transnational social protection of Romanian migrants in Spain under the program of Social and Cultural Anthropology department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Collaborator in a research project on care and gender justice in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Interested in social reproduction theory, critical studies on labor and care, intra-European migration from East to West, transnational social protection, inequalities, and social and ecological justice. In DIASPOlitic she conducts interviews with Polish migrants in Barcelona.
Gabriella Mikiewicz is a specialist in intercultural and research communications in migration contexts. She holds a master’s degree in the Erasmus Mundus programme, Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR). She wrote her Master's thesis on the topic of Eritrean transnational diasporas in 2019. Gabriella is currently based in Copenhagen where she is working as a freelancer on several strategic communications and research projects. She is interested in topics such as migration, integration, diaspora studies, and transnationalism. In DIASPOlitic she conducts interviews with Polish migrants in Oslo.
Corina Tulbure is a Romanian freelance journalist based in Barcelona. She has written stories of displacement and migration in Spain and other countries (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Tunisia, Germany) and about frozen conflicts (Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and Kosovo). Tulbure holds a Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona in the field of Discourse Analysis. She is co-author of the volume “El último europeo” [The last European] (Oveja roja, Madrid, 2014) and has worked with organizations in Barcelona which speak against the situation of undocumented migrants in Spain and their lack of access to public services. She has also collaborated with the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) regarding the access of migrants to healthcare in Spain. Now, she is conducting research work about the internal bordering process in the city of Barcelona which affects “illegalized” people. She is a member of the OACU (Anthropology Observatory of Urban Conflict) Research Group of the University of Barcelona. In DIASPOlitic she conducts interviews with Romanian migrants in Barcelona.