Magdalena Ulceluse is a Marie Curie Phd candidate in Political Science at the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations, Central European University. She finished her B.Sc. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in Timisoara, Romania and went on to gain a M. Sc. in Public Policy and Human Development from the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. She has previously worked on projects for the ILO, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, CEDEFOP and ISFOL, among others. Her main research interests lie in labour migration, immigration and labour policies, as well as the effect of institutional factors on immigrants’ economic activities.