Note: Olsi Vullnetari is temporarily unable to write expert witness statements on behalf of Albania asylum seekers. Olsi Vullnetari is a migration specialist who is originally from Albania. He holds an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and has an excellent understanding of Albania’s history, socio-political and economic situation. Olsi Vullnetari is…
Dr Krasniqi is the Alexander Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, in London. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh. In addition, he has a BA from the University of Pristina and two Master’s Degrees from the European Regional Master’s…
Professor Dalakoglou holds the Chair of Social Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. He has had extensive research experience in Greece and Albania focusing on the anthropology of infrastructures, mobility and urban public spaces. He held an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant for the project ‘crisis-scapes’ which created the online map of racist attacks in Greece…
Erisa Dautaj Senerdem is a full-time reporter at the London-based Argus Media. She has previously worked as an advisor at the Albanian parlaiment, assisting with approximation of the country’s legislation to the EU acquis and has also instructed part time at the New York University in Tirana. Having been brought up in Albania and given…
Turkey, the Middle East and the Balkans: Roma rights, Romani children’s rights Dr Marsh gained his PhD in Romani Studies from Greenwich University (London), his MA (South East European Studies) from SOAS/SSEES and completed his BA Hons (1st) in East European History at SSEES, London. He has also been a Gypsy/Traveller Education Support Teacher in…
Sonya Landesmann is an intercultural psychoanalytic psychotherapist with training in medical anthropology as well as psychotherapy. She has specialist insight and understanding of how mental and emotional distress may be expressed by people from other cultures. Her specialist subjects are trauma, torture, conflict and war and she has experience in working with asylum seekers and…
Lori Amy is a Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, where she researches and writes about the ways that violence writes our identities. At the moment she researches traumatic memory and identity under communism and in transition in Albania, a project for which she has conducted field work in…
Tirana Legal Aid Society, (TLAS) started its activities in 1999 and in 2006 registered as an Albanian independent local not-for-profit organization. Together with other governmental or non-governmental actors, TLAS works for positive development in Albania. TLAS provides legal services to vulnerable individuals. It increases awareness by publishing information on legal issues and human rights. It…
Refugee and Migrant Services in Albania (RMSA) is a NGO that provides social and legal service to refugees and asylum-seekers in Albania. It was legally registered on 12 September 2001 at Tirana court. The mission statement of the NGO is to assist refugees and asylum-seekers to integrate locally in the country of asylum. RMSA provides…
The Albanian Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma and Torture (ARCT) offers Rehabilitation of torture victims services and Prevention of Torture programs. It provides monitoring, documentation of torture and ill-treatment, focusing both on legal and medical aspects, and individual representation to vulnerable people, including immigrants.