Section: Student Profiles

Nur Abdelkhaliq

Name
Nur Abdelkhaliq
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.13, Crystal Macmillan Building 15A George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/nur_abdelkhaliq_zamora
Nur Abdelkhaliq

Qualifications

  • BSc Biology / Minor in Political Studies, American University of Beirut
  • MA in Comparative Politics, University of York

Working Title

A Balancing Act: The European Commission's implementation of the external dimension of immigration policy

Research Interests

My research focuses on the European Union's common immigration policy and how it is integrated into external relations with partner countries of the Mediterranean. In my thesis, I examine how far do the concerned European Commission Directorate-Generals converge or diverge in their incorporation of immigration policy objectives. In my analysis, I apply the concept of organisational culture to assess how DGs perceive and incorporate these objectives: control of irregular migration, management of legal migration, and fostering of links between migration and development. I use EU relations with Morocco as an illustrative case study.

Supervisors

Christina Boswell and Richard Freeman

Awards

International Arab Charity (IAC) sponsorship for academic year 2008/9

Publications

'The energy and migration dimensions of the EU's cooperation with the Mediterranean' (with Silvia Colombo) in C. Bouchard, J. Peterson and N. Tocci (eds.) Multilateralism in the 21st Century: the European Union and the Quest for Effectiveness (Routledge, forthcoming 2013).

'The European Union and Multilateralism in the Mediterranean: Energy and Migration Policy' (with Silvia Colombo), MERCURY e-paper 18, January 2012.

'Externalising Migration Policy: The European Union's 'Global' Approach', MERCURY e-paper 4, September 2010.

Conference Papers

'The European Commission and International Organisations: Looking for an alternative venue for migration policy', Disciplining Global Movements: Migration Management and its Discontents International Workshop, 13 November 2010, University of Osnabrueck, Germany.

'The migration-development nexus in EU external policy: Incoherent objectives and shifts over time', 2nd ECPR Graduate Conference, 25-27 August 2008, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Teaching Experience

Course convenor for the undergraduate Honours course 'Europe and International Migration' (Spring 2010/2011).

Tutor on the undergraduate Honours course 'Politics of the Middle East' (Fall 2010/2011).

I lectured and tutored on the undergraduate Honours course 'Europe and International Migration' (Spring 2009/10).

I tutored and lectured on the undergraduate Honours course 'Politics of the Middle East' (Spring 2008/9).

Research group membership

Migration and Citizenship Research Group, University of Edinburgh

Other activities

Research Assistant in the project 'Multilateralism and the EU in Contemporary Global Order' (MERCURY), funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (May 2009-December 2010).

Co-organiser of the 3rd Migration and Citizenship PhD Workshop, held on 27 November 2009 at the University of Edinburgh. The event was supported by Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh and Research Councils UK.

Co-organiser of the 2nd Migration and Citizenship PhD Workshop, held on 25 June 2008 at the University of Edinburgh.

 

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