GLMM Associate Researcher

Froilan T. Malit, Jr. is a Ph.D. Politics candidate at the University of Glasgow and an associate researcher at the Gulf Labour Markets, Migration, and Population (GLMM) programme and a visiting fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, labor rights, and the political economy of migration in the Gulf region. Over the past decade, Malit has worked as a technical migration policy research consultant to various regional and international organizations, including the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, the International Labor Organization, International Organization for Migration.  He has also led and provided a spectrum of migration policy consultancy projects to a number of migrant-sending states, GCC-based universities, and independent research entities linked to GCC migration dynamics and migrant welfare, including the recent MIPEX Index 2020 (for the UAE).  He has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Global Studies Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, Remittance Review, Migration Letters, Arab Humanities.

Malit has also co-edited a book, “Recent Migrations and Refugees in the Middle East” (with Dr. Rania Rafik Khalil, Transnational Press London, 2019) and published numerous book chapters, migration policy articles, reports, and working papers for various regional and global think tanks and other media outlets, including the Migration Policy Institute, GLMM, and Al-Monitor. He regularly provides expert opinions on migration issues in the Asia-Gulf migration corridor in various regional and international media, including the New York Times, Reuters, and The Guardian. He holds MSt International Relations from the University of Cambridge (with distinction), an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Industrial and Labour Relations (with honors) from Cornell University. He also received additional advanced post-graduate training in migration at European University Institute.