Matthew is the Principal Investigator of the ERC STG JustRemit and Associate Professor of Global Justice at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. His background is in the history of ideas and contemporary political theory. He has written extensively on Thomas Hobbes and neo-republicanism, and on topics such as migration ethics and sanctuary cities. Presently, his focus is on JustRemit. Before joining Leiden University, Matthew taught at Vrije University, the European University Institute, and Maastricht University. In 2019 Matthew was a fellow at The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, and from 2012-14 he was a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI. Matthew’s PhD is in Politics from the New School for Social Research.
Melissa Tanusubroto is the world’s greatest student assistant. She contributes to the JustRemit project in various ways. Her tasks include, but are not limited to,: maintaining the website, updating social media and conducting additional research. Besides her activities with JustRemit, she is also a student at Leiden University’s ISGA.
She currently is in her final year of the Bachelor Security Studies. In a nutshell, this program addresses (human) safety or security. This could concern any and all factors that could relate to and/or affect them – including remittance!
Martina Abisso is a PhD researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs, where she is researching for JustRemit the Governance of Migration and Remittances between the European Union and West-Africa. Her background is in International Relations and European Union Studies, with a focus on the challenges of human mobility. Before her PhD candidacy, Martina worked for the Italian Ministry of Interior at the immigration office in Trieste. Specifically, she operated within the Area IV which concerns Civil Rights, Citizenship, Legal Status of Foreigners, Immigration and Asylum Right. Currently, Martina is also active as research fellow at the LDE Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity.
Chelsie Yount-André is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist at the University of Leiden. Her ethnographic research on the JustRemit project focuses on the ways that projects of kinship- and class-making shape how Senegalese migrants in France (Lyon & Paris) invest in their communities of origin, analyzing the ways that state politics and the remittance industry structure these intimate exchanges among family members. After obtaining her PhD from Northwestern University & the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), she worked as a researcher at the University of Montpellier, France (CIRAD) and at the University of Bologna, Italy on the ERC project “Impact Hau”.
Her work examines how global political economic transformations become relevant in people’s everyday lives, analyzing the moral language that mediates economic practices and using food as a point of entry to investigate how monetary and moral value is produced across scales. Her dissertation research examined how children in transnational Senegalese families learn to recognize and react to “economic moralities,” normative expectations regarding resource redistribution. Her subsequent projects have scaled up this research, investigating economic moralities in the corporate sphere and financial sector in Africa.
Mohamed A. Muse is a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, where he is researching about Global regulatory regimes, remittances, and comparative diaspora studies in Netherlands-Sub Saharan Africa Hub: Nigeria, Senegal and Somalia. Before his Ph.D. candidacy at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Mohamed worked with different think tanks, educational institutions, and international development organisations in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
So far he has presented on various occasions, including: the JustRemit Remittance Conference (October 2021); the ‘Conceptualising Community Conference’ at the University of Aberdeen & the University of Aberdeen Summer School (May & June 2022); a podcast at Leiden University Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) on remittances (May 2022); and the International Day of Family Remittances event at Leiden University (June 2022).
