Lina Vosyliute joined the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG VUB) as a Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice (CMDJ). She will investigate the socio-political and legal impacts of the EU migration and asylum governance. Her latest research focuses on the nexus between the EU's current migration policies and narratives and the newly approved EU due diligence standards, EU corporate sustainability reporting, and broader sustainability agenda. Lina is passionate about transforming current EU-level conversations on migration as the issue of security and border controls to corporate responsibilities.
Lina has more than nine years of professional research experience. She is a former Research Fellow at Brussels-based think-tank CEPS, where she built a solid track record of 40+ academic and policy publications on the EU and global migration and asylum governance, EU’s migrant and Roma inclusion policies, fundamental rights and rule of law. Her particular research focus has been migrant smuggling, criminalisation of solidarity with migrants and other refugees, SLAPPs and other attacks on the civic space in the EU. She has co-authored the book based on the field research - Policing Humanitarianism: EU policies against human smuggling and their impact on civil society and a book chapter ‘Guilty without crime: policing of solidarity with refugees and other migrants’. Before this, Lina conducted evaluations and impact assessments for the Vilnius-based research institute Visionary Analytics.
Lina has been invited as guest lecturer to numerous academic and policy conferences, including organised by the UN, European Parliament, OSCE ODIHR, Queen Mary University London, Autonomous University of Barcelona, College of Europe, among the others. She also has acted as a peer-reviewer on request of the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press, International Studies Perspectives (ISP) Journal and the Executive Board of the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (MJSDL), International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS), International Migration Review (IMR).
Before her research career, she advocated for the rights of migrants, Roma, asylum seekers, and other underrepresented communities on behalf of various non-governmental organisations in Lithuania, Malta, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa. In 2018, Lina was ranked among the 100 women who made all Lithuanians proud of her civic engagement.
In 2023 Lina also founded Heartwarmingly for evidence-based social innovations – to apply the research findings to corporate sustainability strategies and design multistakeholder partnerships for social impact. For instance, she is collaborating in piloting a Collective Pattern–conscious fashion brand co-crafted with migrant women and was also selected as the Expert to advise on the Ashoka Migrant Entrepreneurship programme.
She earned an MA in Human Rights from Central European University in 2011. In 2024, she obtained a certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) at Cambridge University.
