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Aleksandra is an interdisciplinary legal scholar specialising in conflict, displacement, and human rights, with a particular focus on migration and asylum law and policy. She is currently affiliated with the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London and the Democracy Institute at Central European University. In her work, I connect disciplinary, regional and practice-oriented perspectives while foregrounding the lived experiences of affected communities.
Dr. Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova
Contact
Hosting institute
- Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc)
Current affiliation
- Refugee Law Initiative, University of London
- Central European University, Vienna
Memberships
Key expertise
- International refugee law
- Asylum
- Family reunification
- EU law
- Human rights
- Border controls
- Genocide, displacement and refugee law
Regional expertise
- Vereinigtes Königreich
- Deutschland
- Eastern Europe, Middle East
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Causes Of Displacement
- Borders
- Family
- Gender
- Experience Of Violence, Trauma
- Humanitarianism
- International Protection
- Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
- National Refugee And Asylum Policies
- Return And Deportation
- Refugee Camp
- Refugee Law
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Law
- Sociology
Professional Career
Relevant publications
- We ran from monsters: Once welcomed by Germany after IS genocide, Yazidis are now deported to a life of limbo in refugee camps. In: The Conversation (Insights).2026.DOI.
- Unpacking the ‘Migrant Instrumentalisation’ Narrative: Law and Politics of Refugee Exclusion at the EU-Belarus Border. Working Paper, CEU Democracy Institute 2025/32.2025.
- Visas as a Tool of ‘Migrant Instrumentalisation’? The EU-Belarus Border Crisis Reconsidered. Working Papers, Forum Transregionale Studien 41/2025.2025.DOI.
- From the EU-Belarus Border to Strasbourg: The Cases on “Migrant Instrumentalisation” Before the ECtHR. In: Verfassungsblog.2025.DOI.
- The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives.2024.Brill | Nijhoff.DOI.