Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels

Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, PhD, is Honorary Reader in Migration and Politics at the University of Kent, England and Scientific Collaborator at Université de Liège, Belgium.

She is also Founder and CEO of KvK Pathways, a global relocation coaching and career coaching service.

She received her PhD and MA from Georgetown University and her AB from Harvard College. She has been Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2012-13), and Visiting Professor of Migration and Integration at the University of Vienna (2009).

Her research has, for the last 20 years, focused on different aspects of overseas American migration - migration aspiration and potential; (in)voluntary (im)mobility; citizenship law; voting laws and procedures; the overseas American experience.

Selected publications include Migrants or Expatriates? Americans in Europe (Palgrave, 2014); 'Democrats abroad: What motivates core activists to engage in political transnationalism?' (International Migration, 2024); 'The disinterested state: Negative diasporic policy as an expression of state inclusion and national exclusion'; in The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics (Routledge, 2021); 'Federal structure and party politics as simultaneous opportunity and constraint'; in Political Parties Abroad (Routledge, 2020); "Modeling American Migration Aspirations: How Capital, Race, and National Identity Shape Americans’ Ideas about Living Abroad" with Helen B. Marrow, (International Migration Review, 2018);