Timothy Anderson

Timothy Anderson is a social anthropologist specializing in European asylum and migration policy. He completed his PhD at Tallinn University, where his ethnographic fieldwork focused on asylum accommodation and detention in Estonia. His research examines how migrants navigate and contest asylum practices and human rights discourses, highlighting the role of agency, resistance, and activism within constrained environments. Prior to his doctoral work, Timothy conducted fieldwork on grey markets along the Russian-Estonian border and worked as a Data Analyst for the Shifo Foundation in Sweden, where he evaluated child healthcare delivery systems in Uganda and Afghanistan. His broader research interests include comparative migration studies, political anthropology, and critical border studies, with a particular focus on the lived experiences of asylum-seekers and refugees within the European Union.