Position 
Visiting Research Fellow
Nationality 
Sudan
At UNU-CRIS 
01/04/2020 to 15/08/2020
Biographical Statement 

Previously Afaf Rahim worked as a researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, an Assistant Professor at Marburg University in Germany chairing the Department of Economics of the Middle East, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Pretoria University in South Africa. 

At UNU-CRIS Afaf Rahim worked on circular migration, together with Professors Glenn Rayp, Ine Lietaert and Ilse Ruyssen. She focussed on circular migration policy initiatives and the impact of existing circular migration schemes on host and origin countries for a period of several months.