Areas of expertise

  • Migration, asylum, and refugee issues
  • European asylum and migration policies
  • International migration law
  • Human rights at external borders 
  • UK migration policies 

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Svenja Niederfranke is a research fellow in DGAP’s Center for Migration where she researches the foreign policy and development impacts of migration cooperation.

Before joining DGAP, she worked on European migration policy as part of the Migration Programme at the European Policy Centre. She also gained experience working on international migration law at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva and on migration and development at the GIZ Representation in Brussels.

Niederfranke holds an LLM in human rights with a focus on international migration law from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in international relations from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands.

 

[Last updated: June 2024]

Svenja Niederfranke

Research Fellow, Center for Migration

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