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Bresena Dema Kopliku

Bresena Dema Kopliku

Researcher

Bresena Dema Kopliku is a researcher on the Fairwork Albania team. She is involved in qualitative data collection, conducts interviews (in-depth or semi-structured), analyses the collected data and writes the main findings. Her main responsibility is for the fieldwork.

Bresena is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Geography University of Shkodra, Albania where she is currently the Head of Department. Her research interests relate to migration and its diverse typologies, return migration, transnationalism and diaspora. In 2014, she earned her doctor degree, in Human Geography from the Department of Geography, University of Tirana. Based on her research experience she has also collaborated as external expert of migration issues and local consultant with several international organisations operating in Albania.

Bresena’s publications include The Role of Voluntary Return Migration in Supporting Economic Development in Albania, Re-adjustment in the home country – The effects of return migration and transnationalism, and Return Migration in Shkodra – What’s the next step?