Joris Schapendonk
Radboud University, The Netherlands
Joris Schapendonk is assistant professor at the Geography, Planning and Environment department of Radboud University, Nijmegen, and an active member of Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR). His research concentrates on im/mobility trajectories in the context of African migration and the role of migration industry actors in shaping migration processes. In 2014, he received a personal research grant (Veni) from the Innovation Research Scheme of the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). Furthermore, he is attached to the Helping Hands Research Network that investigates everyday border work of European citizens in different European countries (funded by the Danish Research Council 2017-2019).