Katie Kuschminder is Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam where she is the Principal Investigator of the Reintegrate project funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Maastricht University and United Nations University-MERIT. Her research focuses on irregular migration, return migration, and migration and development.
Dr. Kuschminder holds a PhD from Maastricht University. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Return Migration (Edward Elgar, 2021) with Russell King, and author of Reintegration Strategies: Conceptualizing How Return Migrant Reintegrate (Springer, 2017). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies, International Migration, and Migration Studies, among other academic journals, and in popular media outlets.