dr. A (Asya) Pisarevskaya

Biography

Asya Pisarevskaya is Assistant Professor of Migration and Diversity Governance. Currently, she studies migration-related diversities and modes of governance in European cities. She is lead-researcher and manager of 'Rotterdam Inclusivity Project' that explores patterns of discrimination in the city of Rotterdam. She also investigates how mid-sized cities in the Netherlands deal with local migration realities. She is coordinator of an international Master Programme "Governance of Migration and Diversity" since sept 2025. 

In the past she was involved in Horizon-funded project SprINg 'Sustainable Practices for newly arrived migrants', in which knowledge on integration policies and practices is made more accessible for practitioners.she was a project manager of the international Horizon 2020-funded project “CrossMigration” which created a global online library of migration research - Migration Research Hub. During this project she explored how migration studies have developed over time as a scientific field.

Her wider research interests lie in the realm of comparative migration and diversity studies, integration policies and labour market participation of refugees. Dr. Pisarevskaya has obtained her PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan and the University of Turin (Italy). Her dissertation explored the role of policies in labour market integration of humanitarian migrants through a comparative study of seven European countries in the period of 1990-2008.

Keywords: integration policies, labour market integration, comparative analysis, migration-related diversity, migration governance

Sleutelwoorden: integratiebeleid, arbeidsmarktintegratie, vergelijkende analyse, migratie gerelateerde diversiteit, bestuur van migratie