UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language and Arts

Dr Esa Aldegheri

Dr Esa Aldegheri is a Research Associate with the UNESCO RIELA team at the University of Glasgow. She works multilingually to research and support refugee integration, with particular focus on the development of the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy and on how integration relates to different experiences of journey and peacebuilding.  Esa is also a poet and the author of Free to Go (John Murray 2022), a travel book exploring the limits of freedom and non-freedom, motorbike journeys, motherhood and more.