Katie Kuschminder is a Research Fellow at the Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute funded by a Rubicon Grant from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and an affiliated researcher at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and United Nations University-MERIT at Maastricht University. Katie’s research is in the field of international migration with a focus on irregular, transit and return migration. Her current work examines irregular migrants decision making factors in transit. Katie obtained her PhD from Maastricht University in 2014.