Marlies Casier

Supervisor

Department of Conflict and Development Studies

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Marlies Casier is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Work, where she conducts research on solidarity with people on the move. She obtained her PhD in Political Science at Ghent University, with a thesis on the transnational political activism of Kurds from Turkey. She has published extensively on her research in academic journals and books. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Work, a Master's degree in Moral Sciences and a Master's degree in Conflict and Development Studies. After completing her PhD, Marlies worked for 12 years as international policy officer at Sensoa, the Flemish centre of expertise on sexual health, which she combined with a position as a guest lecturer at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, where she taught in the Master of Science in Conflict and Development Studies, the Master of Sociology and the Erasmus Mundus Master in Global Studies.

Email: Marlies.Casier@UGent.be

Research themes:

Civil society, social work and solidarity || Global migration and mobility || Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Refugee camps and asylum centres