Remus Gabriel Anghel
Professor
- Office:
- 30A Expoziției Blvd.
- Email:
- remusgabriel@yahoo.com
- Department:
- Department of Sociology
Courses taught
Migration and Transnationalism; Political Anthropology; Advanced Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Social Processes in Global Contexts
Research interests
Migration, minorities and ethnicity, return migration, societal change, globalisation and transnationalism, integration, post-socialism, and qualitative methods
Short biography
Remus Gabriel Anghel is a professor in the Department of Sociology, where he is qualified to supervise PhD students. He is a member of the SNSPA Doctoral School and a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN). He earned his PhD at Bielefeld University in 2009. He received fellowships from DFG, Marie Curie, New Europe College and Erste and conducted fieldwork in Romania, Germany and Italy.
At ISPMN he led a postdoctoral project (2010–2012) and two collaborative projects on migrants’ voices in Romanian communities (2012–2016) and return migration in IT and agriculture (2021–2023). His research also examines the relationship between mobility and land use in southern Transylvania.
He has published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, International Migration, Population, Space and Place and Antipode. His books include Romanians in Western Europe. Migration, Transnational Connections and Status Dilemmas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), The Making of World Society. Perspectives from Transnational Research (transcript, 2009, with Eva Gerharz, Gilberto Rescher and Monika Salzbrunn) and Transnational Return and Social Change. Hierarchies, Identities and Ideas (Anthem Press, 2019, with Margit Fauser and Paolo Boccagni).