Ismail Oubad conducts fieldwork using activist ethnography, engaging with a range of informal and formal collectives and organizations that support the dwelling and movement of illegalized migrants. His research focuses on these infrastructures along a crucial circuit linking Brussels, western Belgium, and northern France—a key segment of the Belgian-French route to the United Kingdom.

Doctoral Researcher in the ERC AdG SOLROUTES Project (Solidarities and Migrants' Routes Across Europe at Large). SOLROUTES approach is based on an ethnographic exploration of the nexus between unauthorized movements and the networks of solidarity with migrants in transit, which involve actors and practices that have been addressed just recently in migration studies. This multi-sited ethnography will explore and observe 50 crucial nodes in migration routes within Europe, in selected countries on its fringes (Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco) and in the Outermost Regions of the EU (French Guiana, Mayotte).SOLROUTES aims to: a) explore the functioning, articulations, and representations of local and trans-local networks which share shelter, knowledge and resources with migrants in transit; b) assess how routes are continuously reshaped by the encounter between unauthorized movements and solidarity networks; c) develop a large-scale multi-sited ethnographic approach based on live and collaborative methods and digital research; d) develop an innovative theory in migrations studies on the nexus between solidarity with migrants in transit and unauthorized movements, contributing to structure the emerging perspective of solidarities studies; e) generate Special Features – a web series, an art exhibit, a graphic novel – linked to the research, offering new narratives for local communities, and other relevant audiences in the spirit of public sociology.

- Researcher (Action-Research) of the project " Déploiement des Politiques Migratoires au Niveau Régiona " (DEPOMI), implemented by Enabel: https://bit.ly/3T0cgPy - Designing research material: design of several interview guides, construction of sampling, drafting of methodological notes, and weaving contacts with the actors.- Participate in the organisation of field surveys through individual semi-directive interviews and focus groups with institutional actors at central and regional level, regional associative actors and migrants.- Analysing the data collected, drafting analysis reports and preparing summary sheets of the results.- Drafting literature reviews and interview transcriptions.

Qualitative survey on the Economic-geography of Asni, Province of Al Haouz, Marrakech-Safi region.