Brussels Staff Profiles

Carina started her PhD in Public International Law at BSIS in 2014. She has previously earned a BA in International Relations from Stockholm University and an LLM in Public International Law from BSIS. She holds a position as an analyst with the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), from which she is currently on leave to pursue her PhD, and she has published a number of reports for FOI focusing primarily on legal aspects of peace operations. Carina also has 20+ years of experience in policing in both national and international contexts, and has worked in a number of peace operations. She has held positions such as Homicide Investigator in UNMIK, Kosovo, Investigator for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services in DR Congo and Haiti, Protection Officer for UNOCHA in South Sudan, Investigator of crimes against humanity in UNMIT, East Timor, and Head of District in the monitoring and mediating mission SLMM in Sri Lanka.

Carina´s research interest is related to the areas of her practical experience, and focuses on Jus Post Bellum and the protection of civilians in peace operations. Her supervisors are Professor Yutaka Arai and Professor Harm Schepel.

Sara Angiuoni started her PhD in International Relations in October 2013. Prior to that she earned her MA in International Political Economy at the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies with distinction. She also holds a BA in International Relations from L’Orientale University of Naples.

During her studies Sara has worked as a translator at the department of sociology of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, where she has been active in the organization of scientific and cultural events. From October to December 2014 she has been a visiting scholar at the department of sociology of the University of Southern California. She is also teaching assistant in the module “Fundamentals of Dissertation and Research” at the University of Kent (BSIS).

Her research interests include migrant labour, informal economic activities, labour exploitation, agricultural economics.

Sara’s PhD dissertation focuses on labour arrangements for migrant workers in Southern Italian and Californian agricultural sectors.

Her research is supervised by Dr Tugba Basaran and Dr Albena Azmanova.

Nadja focuses her research on independent irregular youth migration from Morocco to the EU, looking at how this specific flow of migration can be explained by developments in the global economy and EU migration policy. She challenges perceptions in the social construction of childhood that underlies the EU’s legal and political framework regulating the migration of unaccompanied minors, and points to gaps in the framework rendering more vulnerable the independent youth migrants it is meant to protect.

Her broader research interests include irregular youth migration, agency of unaccompanied minors, links/gaps in EU development and EU migration policies, and the influence of the global economy in the social transformation of developing countries.

Nadja earned her BA in International Studies at the Open University UK and her MA in International Migration Studies with distinction at the Brussels School of International Studies.

She has worked for the Migration and Asylum Unit at DG DEVCO (European Commission), the Immigration Department of the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the Political Department of the Canadian Embassy in Brussels, Amnesty International EU Office (End FGM campaign) and Oxfam Belgium (Development Cooperation Ecuador and Colombia). She also worked as a Human Rights Observer with returning refugees of the Guatemalan civil war in indigenous villages in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. She produced a photo-documentary on socio-political issues in Guatemala upon return to Europe.

During her PhD, Nadja worked as a teaching assistant for the modules ‘Migration, Conflict, the State and Human Rights’ and ‘Fundamentals, Dissertation and Research’. Her supervisors are Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels and Dr. Bojan Savic.