GRC Team

Managing Director of the Gulf Labour Markets, Migration, and Population (GLMM) programme, at the Gulf Research Center (GRC). He is affiliated with the GRC since 2009, initially assisting in the setting up of Gulf Research Meeting (GRM, 2009-2011) and then in establishing and managing the GLMM. Over the past three decades, Imco Brouwer has worked with universities, research centers, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. His focus has been on international migration, human rights, democratization, higher education, and international cooperation. During the last 15 years he has focused on international migration into, through and from the Middle East and North Africa, with particular attention to the Gulf countries. He also continues to follow closely his long-term research interest on political regime change and international democracy assistance. Previously, he was affiliated with the Robert Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center, Florence, 2012-2013), Arab Reform Initiative (ARI, Paris, 2011-2012) and the European University Institute (EUI, Florence). At the latter, he set up and managed the Mediterranean Program (MP, 1999-2004) and the Mediterranean Research Meeting (MRM, 2000-2009) and worked for the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM, 2006-2009). For a consortium of Mediterranean universities and regional governments, he set up and managed an innovative Masters in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs (MAEM/MEMA, 2002-2007).He holds the equivalent of a MA in Political Science (University of Catania) and was a Ph.D. student in Social and Political Sciences at the EUI (ABD). Recent publications include: “Working and living conditions of low-income migrant workers in the hospitality and construction Sectors in Qatar,” GLMM Research Report No. 1, 2019 (with Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah); “Working and living conditions of low-income migrant workers in the hospitality and construction Sectors in the United Arab Emirates,” GLMM, Research Report No. 2, 2019 (with Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah); and “Labour Migration”, in Adel Abdel Ghafar & Tarik Yousef (eds.), The GCC Turns Forty: Managing Change in an Uncertain Word, Brookings, 2022 (forthcoming)