Search
Jaafar Alloul
Jaafar Alloul is enrolled in a joint Ph.D. degree programme at the University of Amsterdam and KU Leuven. His doctoral research took on a micro-sociological approach and focused on highly skilled EU citizens with ‘second-generation’ (Maghrebi-Muslim) backgrounds who emigrate to the United Arab Emirates. Next to labour migration, citizenship policies and political Islam, one of his longstanding foci is geopolitics in the energy-rich Persian Gulf region, including the economic, social and cultural development of the Gulf Arab states. He holds an MA degree in Middle East studies from Ghent University, and did course work at the University of Barcelona and Birzeit University. In 2014 he obtained a European MA of Excellence (Erasmus Mundus) in migration studies, a programme coordinated by the German University of Oldenburg, with consecutive international course work at the University of Stavanger, Ahfad University and the Slovenian Migration Institute. In 2019 he was a visiting research fellow at the University of Neuchâtel, awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Center of Competence in Migration and Mobility Research (NCCR-On the Move). His work has appeared in Middle East Critique, The Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies and Mobilities.
Contact: Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.