Elina Jonitz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Previously, she worked as a research assistant in two research projects that are part of the Erasmus initiative “Vital Cities and Citizens”, focusing on diversity and inclusion. She holds two master’s degrees, one in Sociology with a specialization in “Governance of Migration and Diversity” (GMD) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and one in Intercultural Communication from the University of Munich. Her research focuses on the (temporal) governance of refugee integration in small towns and rural areas, humanitarian migration movements and regularization opportunities in the context of non-deportability, as well as migrants’ lived experiences.