Elina Jonitz, MSc, is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In her Ph.D. research, she examines the multi-level politics and governance of post-2014 migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns and rural areas in the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. is embedded in the European research project Whole-COMM (Horizon 2020). She holds two master’s degrees, one in Sociology with a specialization in “Governance of Migration and Diversity” (GMD) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the other in Intercultural Communication from the University of Munich. She is interested in the impact of ‘illegality’ and ‘non-deportability’ on migrants, and the governance of ‘immigrant integration' in multilevel systems.
