Dr. K.A. (Katie) Kuschminder
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
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Postbus 15578
1001 NB Amsterdam
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About
Katie is a part-time Senior Researcher in Political Science.
She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant Reintegrate Project. This project will develop a conceptual understanding of what is reintegration governance, its implementation and effectiveness and a new theoretical framework of how different forms of reintegration governance shape returnees’ reintegration outcomes.
Since 2019, she has participated in the ADMIGOV project leading the work on sustainable reintegration and a Work Package on development interventions and migration aspirations in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mali and Turkey.
Katie's research is in the areas of return and reintegration, irregular migration, and migration and development.
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Publications
2025
Guidi, C. F., Triandafyllidou, A., & Kuschminder, K. (2025). Extreme hardship, care ethics, and humanitarian protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy. Mediterranean Politics, 30(2), 247-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2023.2283659 [details]- Maharjan, R., Kuschminder, K., & van Heelsum, A. (2025). Identifying and Addressing Stigma of Return Migrants: Insights from Nepal's Reintegration Governance Actors. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2572416
- Naami, M., Mazzucato, V., & Kuschminder, K. (2025). Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(13), 3281-3299. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2432445 [details]
2023
- Kuschminder, K. (2023). Return migration. In A. Triandafyllidou (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies (Second ed., pp. 54-62). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003194316-7 [details]
- Kuschminder, K., & Dubow, T. (2023). Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands. Geopolitics, 28(3), 1057-1078. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2055462 [details]
- Mueller, C., & Kuschminder, K. (2023). Beyond ‘Just Comes’ and ‘Know-It-Alls’: Exploring Strategies to Deal with Returnee Stigmas During Diaspora Return Visits for Knowledge Transfer. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24(supplement 2), S427-S443. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-022-00975-w [details]
2022
- King , R., & Kuschminder, K. (Eds.) (2022). Handbook of Return Migration. (Elgar Handbooks in Migration). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100055 [details]
- King, R., & Kuschminder, K. (2022). Introduction: definitions, typologies and theories of return migration. In R. King, & K. Kuschminder (Eds.), Handbook of Return Migration (pp. 1-22). (Elgar Handbooks in Migration). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100055.00008 [details]
- Kuschminder, K. (2022). Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(16), 3879-3893. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2028352 [details]
- Kuschminder, K. (2022). Reintegration strategies. In R. King, & K. Kuschminder (Eds.), Handbook of Return Migration (pp. 200-211). (Elgar Handbooks in Migration). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100055.00024 [details]
- Tan, S. E., & Kuschminder, K. (2022). Migrant experiences of sexual and gender based violence: A critical interpretative synthesis. Globalization and Health, 18, Article 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-022-00860-2 [details]
2021
- Dubow, T., & Kuschminder, K. (2021). Family Strategies in Refugee Journeys to Europe. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(4), 4262-4278. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feab018
- Kuschminder, K. (2021). Before disembarkation: Eritrean and Nigerian migrants journeys within Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(14), 3260-3275. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1804192
- Kuschminder, K. (2021). The Multi-level Governance of Asylum in Italy: Understanding Eritreans' Secondary Movements in Search of Relocation within Italy. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(1), 285-304. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fey074
- Kuschminder, K., Ogahara, Z., & Rajabzadeh, I. (2021). Evaluations of Return Within A Mass Deportation: Ethiopians’ Experiences of Return After Expulsion From Saudi Arabia. International Migration, 59(2), 167-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12742
- Lietaert, I., & Kuschminder, K. (2021). Contextualizing and conceptualizing reintegration processes in the context of return. International Migration, 59(2), 140-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12830
2020
- Kuschminder, K., & Triandafyllidou, A. (2020). Smuggling, Trafficking, and Extortion: New Conceptual and Policy Challenges on the Libyan Route to Europe. Antipode, 52(1), 206-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12579
2018
- Bilgili, Ö., Kuschminder, K., & Siegel, M. (2018). Return migrants' perceptions of living conditions in Ethiopia: A gendered analysis. Migration Studies, 6(3), 345-366. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnx050
- Kuschminder, K. (2018). A spurious relationship? Assisted voluntary return and development. In The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe (pp. 261-273). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315512853-25
- Kuschminder, K. (2018). Afghan refugee journeys: Onwards migration decision-making in Greece and Turkey. Journal of Refugee Studies, 31(4), 566-587. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fex043
2017
- Kuschminder, K. (2017). Interrogating the Relationship between Remigration and Sustainable Return. International Migration, 55(6), 107-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12378
2016
- Kuschminder, K. (2016). Strong ties, weak ties: Exploring the role of networks in domestic worker migration from Ethiopia to the Middle East. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 25(4), 401-421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0117196816673641
- Kuschminder, K., & Siegel, M. (2016). Determinants of diaspora policy engagement of Ethiopians in the Netherlands. African and Black Diaspora, 9(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2015.1083184
2014
- Fransen, S., & Kuschminder, K. (2014). Lessons learned from refugee return settlement policies in Africa: A case study on Burundi's Rural Integrated Villages approach. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 33(1), 59-76. https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdt023
- Kuschminder, K. (2014). Knowledge transfer and capacity building through the temporary return of qualified nationals to Afghanistan. International Migration, 52(5), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12065
2019
- Kuschminder, K. A., Dubow, T., İçduygu, A., Ustubici, A., Kirişçioğlu, E., Engbersen, G., & Mitrovic, O. (2019). Decision Making on the Balkan Route and the EU-Turkey Statement. https://mirekoc.ku.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2916_Volledige_Tekst_tcm28-413430.pdf
2012
- Fransen, S., & Kuschminder, K. (2012). Back to the land: The long-term challenges of refugee return and reintegration in Burundi. (New Issues in Refugee Research; No. 242). UNHCR.
2021
- Kalir, B., Kuschminder, K., Dubow, T., Lemberg-Pedersen, M., & González Beilfuss, M. (2021). The Governance of Exit Regimes and Sustainable Reintegration Post-Exit. (European Policy brief). ADMIGOV. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8217500 [details]
2022
- Kuschminder, K. (2022). AdMiGov - Migration and Development - Ethiopia. DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zqh-8zaz
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Guidi, C. F., Triandafyllidou, A., & Kuschminder, K. (2025). Extreme hardship, care ethics, and humanitarian protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy. Mediterranean Politics, 30(2), 247-271.