Dorina Dedgjoni

European integration

Title of the PhD project: "Transnational Migration of Highly Qualified People to and from Italy. The Mediterranean "Brains" on the Move: Dealing with "Brain Drain" or "Global Brain Chain"?"

Highly skilled migration has recently become one of the biggest issues in Europe, mainly due to demographic change and skills shortages within member states' labour markets. While migration trends used to be from developing to developed countries, these schemes are no longer necessarily valid today. Recent studies and statistics show that Italy is going through two processes: On the one hand, many young and highly qualified Italians migrate to other European countries, on the other hand, many young professionals live and work in Italy, many of whom come from other Mediterranean countries.

This dissertation aims to contribute to a qualitative understanding of the causes, meanings and effects of high-skilled mobility to and from Italy. It aims to explore the complex circumstances of transnational movements of young professionals in Europe - a) the inter-European movements of highly-skilled Albanians to Italy and b) the inter-EU mobility of highly-skilled Italians to Germany - but more importantly their impact on life courses, career trajectories and future mobility prospects.


Contact:dorina.dedgjoni@sk.hs-fulda.de

Curriculum vitae:

  • Research associate in the BMBF project "Migration, Diversity and Institutional Change in Engineering Sciences" (MigIng) at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences.
  • Master's degree from the University of Nantes in Management - Business Administration
  • international Master's programme 'Intercultural Communication and European Studies' (ICEUS) at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda
  • research assistant in the DAAD-funded research project 'Global Learning for Sustainable Development' (project leader: Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban)
  • Her internationally mobile academic career includes positions at the European University Institute in Florence, at the University of Nantes and at the Graduate School in History and Sociology at the University of Bielefeld

Previous research projects:
Miging - Migration, Diversity and Institutional Change in Engineering: Link
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Scholarship:
Scholarship of the University of Applied Sciences Fulda

Lectures and publications

Conference papers:

  • 18.10.2018: "Between return and future mobility: Career and Life Transitions of Master Students from Africa, Asia and Latin America" Presentation at the workshop "International Student Mobility and Migration: Trajectories, Transitions, and Social Formations" of the IMISCOE Research Cluster, DZHW, Hannover, Germany (together with Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban).
  • 31.08.2018: "Challenges and Strategies of Internationalizing Higher Education: Experiences of Global Students from Africa, Asia and Latin America" Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, Cardiff, Wales (together with Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban and Kirsten Heusgen)
  • 03.07.2018: "To stay or to go? Career and Life Paths of Master Students from Africa, Asia and Latin America" Lecture at the 15th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain (together with Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban and Kirsten Heusgen)
  • 03.10.2017: "Transnational Migration of Highly Skilled Professionals from and to Italy. The Mediterranean 'Brains' on Move: Dealing with 'Brain Drain' or a 'Global Brain Chain'?" Presentation at the PhD seminar "Introduction to Research Methods in Ethnic and Migration Studies" at the REMESO Research Training Group, Norrköping, Sweden.
  • 30.06.2017: "Exploring Career Paths and Professional Integration of Highly Skilled Albanian Migrants in Italy: Dealing with 'Brain Waste' or 'Brain Gain'?" Paper presented at the 14th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • 22.06.2017: "Transnational Migration of Highly Skilled Professionals from and to Italy. The Mediterranean 'Brains' on Move: Dealing with 'Brain Drain' or a 'Global Brain Chain'?" Lecture at the Summer School "Gendering (In)formal Social Protection: Gender, Migration and Resistance" at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Grade Center Gender, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 05.04.2017: "Experiences and Professional Integration of Highly Skilled Albanian Migrant Women Working and Living in Italy: Career Progression or Deskilling?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, USA.
  • 05.04.2017: "Between return and mobility: Transnational Mobility of young academics from Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America." Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, USA (together with Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban and Kirsten Heusgen).
  • 02.07.2016: "Transnational Migration of Highly Skilled Professionals from and to Italy. The Mediterranean 'Brains' on Move: Dealing with 'Brain Drain' or a 'Global Brain Chain'?" Paper presented at the workshop "Highly Skilled Migrants: A Future Research Agenda" at the 13th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.

Workshops:

  • 29.11.2018: organisation of the panel "Student Mobilities from the Global South" at the 3rd Transmobilities Development Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands (together with Prof. Dr. Carola Bauschke-Urban).
  • 26.06.2019: Organisation of the workshop "Teaching Controversial Migration and Integration Issues" at the 16th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Malmö, Sweden

Erstbetreuerin

Prof. Dr.

Carola Bauschke-Urban

Building 22,

Room 120

carola.bauschke-urban@sk.hs-fulda.de
Prof. Dr.Carola Bauschke-Urban+49 661 9640-471
Consultation hours
Tuesday 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. and by appointment via e-mail

Zweitbetreuer

Prof. Dr.

Hans-Wolfgang Platzer

Building 22 (P),

Room 201

hans-wolfgang.platzer@sk.hs-fulda.de