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Senior researcher, PhD, 25+ years of experience, author resp. editor of 15 books and more than 50 journal articles (h-index 36, 6319 quotations), more than 20 research projects (incl. 10 EU-projects), international cooperation, policy advice, research management, science communication.
Franck Düvell
Key expertise
- irregular migration
- transit migration
- border- and migration control
- infrastructures
- migration politics (national, European Union, international)
- policy evaluation and implementation research
- critical migration statistics
- ethics
Current affiliation
- IMIS – Institute for Migration Research and intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University
Regional expertise
- Western Europe
- North Africa
- Central Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Central Asia
- Middle East
Professional career
Social worker for immigrants and refugees, 1989-1996
Editor Journal of Development Policy Groups, 1996-1998
Exeter University, Research Fellow, 1998-2002
European University Institute, Jean Monet Fellow, 2002-2003
Bremen University, Centre for European Studies, part-time lecturer, 2004-2008
International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), contract researcher, 2009-2012
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University, Senior Researcher, Associate professor, 2006-2018
Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- and Migrationsforschung (DeZIM), head of migration department, 2018-2020
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University, senior researcher, since 2020
Chair, IMISCOE Standing Committee Forced Migration and Refugees, seit 2024
Co-editor Central and Eastern European Migration Review, Turkish Journal for Diaspora Studies, Zeitschrift für Migration
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- International Protection
- Borders
- Economy Of Forced Migration
- Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
- National Refugee And Asylum Policies
- Refugee Camp
- Return And Deportation
- Transnational Networks
- Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
Research fields
- Migration Research
Relevant publications
- Oltmer, J., Berlinghoff, M., Düvell, F., Etzold, B., Lang, C., Pott, A. (eds.) (2025). Report Globale Flucht 2025. Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer.
- Düvell, F., Preiss, C. (2022). Migration Infrastructures: How Do People Migrate? In: Scholten, P. (ed.): Introduction to Migration Studies, 2018, Cham: Springer, 83-98.
- Crawley, H., Düvell, F., Jones, K., McMahon, S., Sigona, N. (2018). Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’: Journeys over land and sea. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Düvell, F. (2012). Transit migration: A blurred and politicised concept. Population, Space and Place, 18(4), 415-427.
- Düvell, F., Jordan, B. (2002). Irregular Migration: The dilemmas of transnational mobility. MA: Edward Elgar.