Mari-Liis Jakobson

Dr Mari-Liis Jakobson is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at Tallinn University. In 2019-20, she is the Juris Padegs Research Fellow at Yale MacMillan Center. Her research interests relate to transnational citizenship and migration, in particular how the policies and politics of migration and citizenship shape citizenship as identity and practice. In 2014, she defended her PhD, “Citizenship in Transformation: Political Agency in the Context of Migrant Transnationalism”, and served as a visiting fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London, focusing on the role of Baltic civil society in London and dual citizenship policy in the Baltic States. In 2016-19, she worked as a researcher for the Estonian contact point of the European Migration Network, and since 2018, she has served as a country expert for the Global Citizenship Observatory GLOBALCIT and as a member of various national working groups on migration and transnationalism policy.