Anthropologist Dr Lauren Heidbrink from California State University, Long Beach was successfully awarded the Fulbright Schuman 70th Anniversary Scholar Award with the support of Dr Nando Sigona at IRiS.
Dr Heidbrink has carried out ethnographic fieldwork with unaccompanied children in the US, Central America and Mexico. Her new project conducted in Belgium, Greece, Italy, and the UK will add a European perspective to her analysis. Dates for her fellowship will be confirmed soon.