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Cyprus – COI

Click here to see the host countries of refugees originating from Cyprus. Dr Adrian R. Marsh Email: romanistudies@mac.com Dr Marsh is based in Istanbul, Turkey where he has been working with the Romani and Gypsy communities of the region since 2002. He gained his PhD in Romani Studies from Greenwich University (London), his MA (South East European …

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Bahrain – COI

Dr Shaul Gabbay Email: gabbay@muslimworldexpert.com Dr Shaul Gabbay acts as a resource for immigration attorneys seeking advice, counsel and expert testimony in asylum cases. Formerly the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East at the University of Denver, he has published extensively on cultures and customs in all …

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Azerbaijan – COI

Bill Bowring Email: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk Prof Bowring has experience in Azerbaijan dating back to 1986 when he first travelled to the country. In the early 2000s he worked with the Council of Europe on ‘Education Policy and Minorities’. He has worked extensively on bringing cases at the European Court of Human Rights. Prof Bowring has close …

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Vietnam – COI

Prof Carlyle Thayer Email: carlthayer@webone.com.au Phone: +61 2 6251 1849Address: P.O. Box 435, Jamison Centre, ACT 2614 Australia Carlyle A. Thayer is a political scientist who has specialized in domestic Vietnamese politics for over four decades. His research and publications have focused primarily on leadership and decision-making in the Vietnam Communist Party, the functions of the …

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Timor-Leste – COI

Dr Kelly Cristiane da Silva Email: kellysa@uol.com.br Dr Kelly Cristiane da Silva has been teaching anthropology at the University of Brasilia (UnB) since 2005. She finished her PhD in Social Anthropology in 2004 at the UnB, where she presented her thesis ‘Paradoxos da Autodeterminação: A construção do Estado Nacional e práticas da ONU em Timor-Leste’ (Paradoxes …

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Thailand – COI

Dr Ian Baird Email: ibaird@wisc.edu Work phone: 1-608-265-0012 Dr Ian G. Baird is a US citizen, now a full Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has extensive experience working, living and conducting research in Laos and Thailand. He lived in both countries full-time between the mid-1980s and 2010. He speaks, reads and writes Lao and …

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Singapore – COI

We have no specialists for Singapore, but would welcome suggestions.

Myanmar – COI

Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer Email: beyer.judith@gmail.com Judith Beyer is Full Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She specializes in legal anthropology and has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) and Southeast Asia (Myanmar).  Her research focuses on the anthropology of law, the anthropology of the state and …

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Malaysia – COI

Prof Graham K. Brown Professor of International Development, University of Western Australia Email: graham.brown@uwa.edu.au Professor Brown is a political scientist with research interests in inequality, migration, and political violence. He specialises in Southeast Asia, and has conducted extensive field research in Malaysia and Indonesia in particular. He has also consulted extensively for international agencies, including the …

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Laos – COI

Dr Ian Baird  Email: ibaird@wisc.edu Work phone: 1-608-265-0012 Dr Ian G. Baird is a US citizen, now a full Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has extensive experience working, living and conducting research in Laos and Thailand. He lived in both countries full-time between the mid-1980s and 2010. He speaks, reads and writes Lao and …

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