Marlies Casier

Social Work , Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Conflict and Development Studies , Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

Email: Marlies.Casier@UGent.be

Research themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Civil society, social work and solidarity || Global migration and mobility

Marlies Casier is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Work, where she researchers solidarity with people on the move. She teaches on international migration dynamics and European border policies in the Master of Science in Conflict and Development Studies and the Master in Global Studies. Marlies worked for 12 years as an international policy advisor on sexual and reproductive health and rights at Sensoa, the Flemish center of expertise on sexual health. She obtained her PhD in Political Sciences at the Ghent University, with a research into the transnational political activism of Kurds from Turkey in Europe. She She published extensively on her research in peer-reviewed journals and books. She holds a bachelor in Social Work, a Master in Moralphilosophy and a Master in Conflict and Development Studies.

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