Elena [IF co-investigator] is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, Co-Director of the UCL-Migration Research Unit, and Director of the UCL-IAS Refuge in a Moving World network. In addition to jointly leading the Baddawi Camp Lab, Elena is Principal Investigator of Analysing South-South Humanitarian Responses to Displacement from Syria and Local Community Experiences of and Responses to Displacement from Syria.
Her recent books include Refuge in a Moving World; The Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations; South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development; The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival; and The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.