Expert on Europe

Dr Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova is a Research Affiliate with the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff University. She received her PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London and has held fellowships, teaching positions and visiting appointments at various institutions, including LSE, Forum Transregionale Studien, and VU Amsterdam. Her area of expertise lies within the field of European and comparative migration, asylum, and nationality law, with a particular focus on family migration and access to international protection. Her PhD thesis (under contract with Brill) critically examined the concept of marriages of convenience in EU and UK law in so far as it concerns the exercise of EU citizens’ right to family reunion. Her research interests currently focus on the EU-Belarus border crisis, developments in migration and nationality laws in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the implications of EU migration policies for Iraqi nationals, particularly of Kurdish/Ezidi background.