Iva Dodevska

Iva is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice (CMDJ) of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is affiliated to the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM) and she conducts research related to the VUB Strategic Research Programme Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE). Iva obtained a joint PhD in Migration Studies (with distinction) at Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier 3 in France and Charles University in the Czech Republic, where she held a Horizon 2020 Marie Curie fellowship. Her doctoral research examined the contested discourse on migrant integration in the EU policy framework, in scientific research, and in the production of “evidence” for policymaking at EU level. Iva’s doctoral dissertation, titled Europe and Its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy, won the Maria Ioannis Baganha award for best dissertation in Migration Studies, issued by IMISCOE. She holds an MA in Ethnic and Minority Studies (with honours) from ELTE, Budapest and a BA in Journalism and Media from the University of Skopje.  

Iva spent brief research stays at Brown University in the US (2022) and Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland (2023) and has taught in the area of borders and migration policy at CU. She is active in the IMISCOE network as a board member of the Standing Committee ‘Reflexivities in Migration Studies’. She is a critical and interdisciplinary researcher, broadly interested in the ways European liberal democracies govern human mobility and their racialized populations, as well as how practices of knowledge production shape inequalities along the migrant/citizen divide.