Asst. Prof. Dr. Armando Aliu

Work

Subjects:

Law

Research Keywords:

migration and refugee studies, asylum and immigration law, collaboration theory, European studies, and the EU law, multilevel governance, morality and ethics, cosmopolitanism, human rights activism, global economic governance, World Trade Organisation (WTO) law, legitimacy and effectiveness, stakeholder approach, European industrial relations, Europeanisation, and so on.

Collaboration interests:

ScopusID: 56015367400 ResearcherID: A-3894-2016 LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/armando-aliu-45228737 ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Armando_Aliu Academia: http://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/ArmandoAliu

Biography:

Armando Aliu is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of the International and Political Studies, CISAD at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). He studied at the universities of [[Akdeniz University|Antalya]] (B.A.: 2006/2009), [[M.A.: University of Hamburg|Hamburg]] (2010/2012), [[DAAD Visiting Fellowship: University of Heidelberg| Heidelberg]] (2011/2014), and [[Ph.D: Istanbul Commerce University|Istanbul]] (2015-2019). He has been affiliated with various universities and research institutions worldwide, such as [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law|Heidelberg]], [[Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg|Heidelberg]], [[KU Leuven|Leuven]], [[Jagiellonian University|Krakow]], [[United Nations International Organization for Migration|Geneva]], [[European Commission ECAS-SEDIA|Brussels]], [[Istanbul Commerce University|Istanbul]], [[Hasan Kalyoncu University|Gaziantep]], and so on. He successfully graduated from a master’s program (M.A. in European Studies – Magna Cum Laude) at the University of Hamburg in 2012. His M.A. dissertation is entitled “Controlling Migration and Hybrid Model: A Comparison of Western Balkans and North African Countries.” In the dissertation, he argued migration flows and asylum issues in the framework of empirical, analytical, and political comparisons of Western Balkan Countries (WBCs: Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Serbia) and North African Countries (NACs: Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria) through using a mixed-method research approach. He investigated the politics and sociology of global migration phenomenon and global development through focusing on the relationships between the “South Countries” (i.e., Migrant Sender/Home Countries) and “North Countries” (i.e., Migrant Receiver/Host Countries). The research highlighted the dialectics of the “triple win approach” and the “hybrid model” (i.e., the home country–public sector, the host country–private sector, and the civil society–migrants) by using governance models. The main argument was evaluated methodologically through using case study research, grounded theory, constructivist, and normative approaches. During 2011-2014, he was a DAAD Visiting and Postgraduate Scholar at Heidelberg University and an investigator at Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany). During his study and research at the University of Heidelberg, he participated in many postgraduate lectures and seminars in various faculties and institutes, such as the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (FWS), Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics (AWI), Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology (MWI), Institute of Political Science (IPW), South Asia Institute (SAI), and Heidelberg Centre for American Studies (HCA). Based on two years project contract (2011-2013), he was employed as a DAAD investigator in the Schumpeter Project: Constitutional Reasoning in Europe (The JUDINST Project: Assessing Judicial Institutions and Judicial Performances: The Case for Judicial Review) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Likewise, he worked independently on a project entitled “Hybridity Project: Innovative Governance and Controlling Migration: Triple Win Solution for the EU, the Western Balkans, and North African Countries” (2013-2014). During the same timeframe, he collaborated with Fellows in South Asia Institute (SAI) at the University of Heidelberg in the framework of a research project (“Political Economy, Social Contracts, and Hybrid Labor Regulations: An Empirical Investigation of Governance and the Role of Transnational Networks in South Asia Countries - SACs: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and South-Eastern European Countries; SEECs: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia"). The research unearthed genuine issues and trends in contemporary political economy, social contracts, social conflicts, and “hybrid labor regulations” research areas and explicated the convergence of interests amongst state actors, private actors, and civil society actors in the context of global-local governance dialectic. Key highlighted research areas were specified as follows: Coding democracy scores, coding democratization scores, governance models and economic liberalization, industrial relations, and judicial aspects. In 2017, he was a Visiting Study Fellow in the Oxford Department of International Development, International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. His research project entitled “Migration and Intercultural Civil Society Dialogue in the frame of Collaboration and Multilevel Governance” was approved by the Affiliations Committee. The project highlighted migration and refugees’ issues and key stakeholders’ interactions at multiple levels (i.e., local, regional, national, and EU levels) through analyzing the collaborations among public sector, private sector, and civil society in the scope of “good migration governance” and “controlling migration mechanisms” in the Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria Regions (Germany), the Southeast England Region (UK), and the Marmara Region (Turkey). The investigation underpinned the pooling of migration project funding allocations (e.g., grants, tenders, financial instruments, etc.) to enforce readiness and anticipation towards the refugee crisis and civil protection. Furthermore, the influences of intercultural interactions of migrants in selected regions were argued from holistic and inextricably intertwined perspectives of pedagogical formation, multiculturalism, and multilingualism dimensions of migrants’ education. In January 2019, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree (Summa Cum Laude) in International Commerce and the European Union Law from Istanbul Commerce University (ICU). The ICU was established by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce which has strong ties with the EU institutions and stakeholders. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Competence, Migration Governance and Collaboration in the EU, Balkans, and Turkey: Migration and Refugees Issue from the European Union Law Perspective.” During the Ph.D. period (2015-2018), he conducted many in-depth interviews, fieldwork research, questionnaires, and observations in the EU, the WBCs, and Turkey. He investigated migration governance, competence theory, collaborations, and partnerships at multiple levels. He argued the IOM migration governance indicators through analyzing the EU institutions/agencies and migration-related institutions in the WBCs. The research emphasized how migration, asylum, and refugee issues influence the relations among the EU and the WBCs, and on which legitimate grounds and effective levels these contentious issues are tackled and what affordable concrete solutions are sought by authorized institutions, agencies, and their internal/external stakeholders in the WBCs’ collaboration ecosystem and innovation scheme. The EU enlargement strategy, integration policies, and harmonization of the WBCs’ national legislation with the EU law and principles create pathways for joint reinforced cooperation, robust and fair management of external borders, common strategic actions, stronger foresight, crisis preparedness, resilience, flexibility, and effective migration governance. He also included the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM) to the contents of the research to highlight the humanitarian approach in international migration and refugee studies. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Aliu worked as an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Trade, Faculty of Business, and Faculty of Law at Istanbul Commerce University (ICU). He was the Founder and Director of the ICU Rectorate’s Project Management Coordination Unit (ICU-RPMCU) and served as an “Advisor to the Rector.” From 2019 to 2020, he had many responsibilities and tasks as the Advisor to the Rector and Director of the ICU-RPMCU at the ICU Rectorate and Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ICC). From 2019 to 2020, he worked with the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Hasan Kalyoncu University in collaboration with the international institutions, associations, and donators located in Gaziantep (Turkey). From a theory-practice viewpoint, he contributed to the migration and refugee-related scientific research projects in the scope of the peacekeeping missions and humanitarian aids. Since 1st October 2022, he has been working as Assistant Professor (Adjunct) in the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). He also works as Postdoctoral Fellow in the framework of the research project entitled “Promoting Order at the Edge of Turbulence (POET): Chinese Pandemic Diplomacy”, conducted in the Centre for International Studies and Development (CISAD).

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