About The Journeys Project
The Journeys Project explores the lived experiences of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers through both human stories and empirical research. By centering the financial, legal, and social realities of displacement, the project seeks to build tools for researchers, policymakers, and educators to better understand migration in all its complexity.
Our Leadership
Kim Wilson
Founder & Lead Researcher
Kim Wilson is the founder of The Journeys Project and a Senior Lecturer at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
She is a core faculty member of the Henry J. Leir Institute and has led pioneering research into the financial journeys of displaced people worldwide. Kimberley continues to shape the project’s empirical research, supervising graduate fellows and advancing scholarship on how displaced people navigate the economic dimensions of migration.
Annie Bright
Director, Legal Research
Annie Bright (J.D., St. Mary’s University School of Law; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University) leads the legal dimensions of The Journeys Project. A practicing immigration attorney and current faculty member at St. Mary’s University School of Law, Annie has represented detained and non-detained immigrants in immigration proceedings, including litigation and appeals in Texas immigration courts.
Her research and teaching focus on constitutional law, immigration law, and humanitarian protection. At The Journeys Project, Annie guides the work on legal frameworks, rights, and protections for people on the move.
Contributing Researchers
The Journeys Project has grown through the collaboration of many researchers, faculty, graduate fellows, and students.
Together, this community of scholars and practitioners contributes to documenting and analyzing the journeys of displaced people across continents—illuminating not just the risks and hardships of migration, but also the resilience, ingenuity, and determination of those who undertake it.
Roxani Krystalli
Visiting Fellow, Feinstein International Center; Lecturer at the University of St Andrews.
Swati Mehta
Research Associate, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Hans-Martin Zademach
Professor of Economic Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Julie Zollmann
PhD candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University.
Student Contributors
Funding & Partnerships
The Journeys Project is a joint project between The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and St. Mary's University School of Law. Since 2016, when the Journeys Project was launched, Fletcher has worked with and received funding from the following Organizations.
Catholic Relief Services
Funding — Research in Greece Turkey, and Jordan
Mercy Corps
Funding — Research in Greece and Colombia
International Rescue Committee
Funding — Research in Mexico and Uganda
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Funding — Research in Costa Rica
GIZ
Funding — Research in Kenya and Jordan
BMZ
Funding — Research in Kenya and Jordan
IOM
Partnership — Costa Rica
UNCHR
Partnership — Rwanda
WFP
Partnership — Rwanda
We are grateful to The Fletcher School's continued support for the Journeys Project through its centers, primarily The Institute for Business in a Global Context and the Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security. Student research at both Fletcher and St. Mary's is additionally supported through regular academic study channels.