Sarah Adeyinka, PhD

Affiliation: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Ghent University, Belgium

Dr. Sarah Adeyinka is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam where she teaches at both Bachelor’s and Master’s levels, and leads the study Stronger Futures: Survivor-Centered Reintegration and Cross-Border Policy Dialogues. She previously worked on the European Research Council-funded Reintegrate Project, examining reintegration governance with a focus on victims of human trafficking. She is also affiliated as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Network on Migration and Global Mobility (MIGLOBA) at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on migration, human trafficking, and the continuum of violence experienced by people in vulnerable situations; including unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking, and return migrants. Her work includes research on Nigerian victims of trafficking, the wellbeing of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution, and return migrants’ experiences of reintegration. Dr. Adeyinka has over 20 years of experience as a humanitarian practitioner, working with people in situations of vulnerability, particularly survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking. She is the founder and board chair of CoCreate VZW (Belgium) and Cocreate Humanitarian Aid Foundation (Nigeria), both of which focus on survivor-centered support.

Research Interests:

• human trafficking and victim support

• sexual violence

• irregular migration

• prostitution

• stigma

• reintegration