The Board of Directors represents the highest authority of the network and decides on the network structuring activities — the joint programme of activities, the allocating of funds and the financial accounting, any changes in the membership and appointments of new working groups. This board will meet at least twice a year. The Board of Directors consists of all directors of the partner institutes (or their mandated representatives), each having one vote in decision-making.
Dr. Wiebke Sievers
ISR, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Wiebke Sievers has been working as migration researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna since 2003. Her research concentrates on migration and culture in Austria and in international comparison, with her main interest being in literature. However, she also works on theatre, cultural policies and the financing of culture.
Prof. dr. Jean-Michel Lafleur
Coordinator
CEDEM
ULiège (University of Liège)
Belgium
Dr. Daniela Vintila
Senior Network Officer
CEDEM
ULiège (University of Liège)
Belgium
Angeliki Konstantinidou
Network Officer
CEDEM
ULiège (University of Liège)
Belgium
Dr. Mélanie De Winter
Network Officer
CEDEM
ULiège (University of Liège)
Belgium
Prof. Ilke Adams
IES (Institute for European Studies), Free University Brussels, Belgium
Ilke Adam is a Political Science Professor at the Institute For European Studies (IES) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. With Prof. Florian Trauner, she coordinates the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM), which is the interdisciplinary research platform joing over 100 migration and diversity researchers at VUB. Her research focusses on the multi-level politics and governance of migration, diversity and equality. She published on immigration and immigrant integration (policies), multiculturalism and religious diversity. She teaches "Diversity Policies in the European Union" and "European Immigration Policies" in the Advanced Master in European Integration, and in the Master in Political Science.
Prof. Pieter Bevelander
MIM, Malmö University, Sweden
Pieter Bevelander is professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global political studies and Director of MIM, Malmö Institute of Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Sweden. His main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions of natives towards immigrants and minorities.
Dr. Veronika Bilger
ICMPD, (International Centre for Migration Policy Development), Vienna, Austria
Veronika Bilger is the Head of the Research Unit at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). She has a background in African studies with a focus on Social, Gender and Development Studies and has lectured on migration related issues in the Department for International Development at the University of Vienna for many years. Here research interests include migration and integration policy and governance, migration patterns and dynamics, irregular migration.
Dr. Özge Bilgili
ERCOMER, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Dr. Özge Bilgili is an expert on immigrant integration, transnationalism and development research and policy analysis in relevant areas. She is the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR) and Thomas J. Alexander fellow at the Education and Skills Department of the OECD. She is also regularly involved in commissioned research for country governments and international organizations including IOM and UNHCR.
Dr. Marta Bivand Erdal
PRIO, Oslo, Norway
Marta Bivand Erdal is Research Professor in Migration Studies at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and a Human Geographer. Her research focuses on the impacts of migration and transnationalism in both emigration and immigration contexts, including areas such as remittances, migration & development, citizenship and migration-related diversity. She currently chairs the IMISCOE Training Committee.
Géraldine Bozec
URMIS (Unité de recherches Migrations et Société), Department of Sociology of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
France
Jan-Paul Brekke
ISF, Oslo, Norway
an-Paul Brekke is a specialist in migration, integration and diversity studies. A Phd in sociology from the University of Oslo, Brekke covers a broad range of topics within the field, including flows, policy development in the Nordic countries and the EU, destination choices, attitudes to immigration, secondary migration, and labor market integration. He is a H2020 expert, MIPEX rapporteur and frequently used commentator on migration issues in Nordic media.
Prof. Francesca Campomori
Cà Foscari, University of Venice (UNIVE)
Italy
Prof. Jørgen Carling
PRIO, Oslo
Norway
Dr. Katharine Charsley
MMD (Migration Mobilities Bristol), University of Bristol, UK
Katharine Charsley is Professor of Migration Studies at the School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, and a member of the Migration Mobilities Bristol board. Her research interests focus on issues of gender, families, integration and migration, and particularly marriage-related migration.
research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/katharine-a-h-charsley
Prof. Mathias Czaika
DEMIG (Department for Migration and Globalisation), Danube University Krems, Krems
Austria
Prof. Gianni D’Amato
SFM, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Gianni D'Amato is Professor at the University of Neuchâtel and Director of the Swiss Forum of Migration and Population Studies (SFM). His research interests are focused on citizenship, moblities, populism and the history of migration. After his MA in Sociology at the University of Zurich, D’Amato focused his PhD Thesis on citizenship and migrants’ integration in a comparative perspective. He is author of Vom Ausländer zum Bürger. Der Streit um die politische Integration von Einwanderern in Deutschland, Frankreich und der Schweiz (Lit Verlag 3rd edition, 2005). His recent publications include "The Migration Challenge: The Swiss Left in the Arena of Direct Democracy" In M. Bröning & C. P. Mohr (Eds.), The Politics of Migration and the Future of the European Left. Bonn: Dietz, 2018, and "Immigration and, populist political strategies. The Swiss case in European perspective". In G. Titzi, J. Mackert & B. S. Turner (Eds.), Populism and the Crisis of Democracy, Volume 3 , London: Routledge, 2019.
Prof. dr. Ilse Derluyn
Ghent University - (CESSMIR)
Belgium
Dr. Dušan Drbohlav
GEOMIGRACE, Charles University Prague, Czechia
Dušan Drbohlav works for the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czechia, Prague, as a professor of social geography. He is also a head of the GEOMIGRACE (Geographic Migration Centre) team. He specializes in studying an international migration process and migrants´ integration in host societies mainly in Central/Eastern Europe with special regards to Czechia.
www.natur.cuni.cz/geografie/socialni-geografie-a-regionalni-rozvoj/drbohlav
Prof.dr. Godfried Engbersen
EUR, (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
The Netherlands
Prof. Lucinda Fonseca
Maria Lucinda Fonseca - Full Professor of Human Geography and Migration Studies at IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa. She is the Coordinator of the Research cluster MIGRARE - Migration, spaces and societies at the CEG - Centre of Geographical Studies and the Director of the PhD programme in Migration Studies at the Universidade de Lisboa. Her current research activities focus on migration processes, migration, mobilities and urban transformation; migration, demographic change and regional development. She is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board of IMISCOE. She is, moreover, a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Metropolis and EuroMedMig, and a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. She coordinated and participated in several EU and NORFACE funded research projects. She has served on numerous management and leadership positions at the University of Lisbon, namely the following: Dean and President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (2013-2019); Member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon (2010-2013); Pro-Rector (1998-2002); Board Member of the Faculty of Letters (1991-93).
IGOT-UL, University of Lisbon
Portugal
Prof. Andrew Geddes
EUI, Florence, Italy
Andrew Geddes is a Professor of Migration Studies and the Director of the Migration Policy Centre. During his career, he has led and participated in a number of major projects on aspects of international migration working with a wide range of academic and non-academic partners. For the period 2014-19 he was awarded an Advanced Investigator Grant by the European Research Council for a project on the drivers of global migration governance (the MIGPROSP project see www.migrationgovernance.org for further details). He has published extensively on global migration, with a particular focus on policy-making and the politics of migration and on regional cooperation and integration.
Dr. Guia Gilardoni
ISMU, Milan, Italy
Guia Gilardoni is an international research project manager at ISMU Foundation, where she is in charge of the International Relations. She has a research scholarship at the Catholic University in Milan for a field research in Senegal. Her main topics of interest are European migration policy, refugees and migrant integration. For the last ten years, she has been committed to bring research and academic knowledge to policymakers. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Research Methods from the Catholic University of Milan, where she specialized in the integration of young generations in multicultural society, and a bachelor's degree in Modern History from Bologna University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of IMISCOE and now leading ReSOMA – Research Social Platform on Migration and Asylum H2020.
Prof. Ahmet İçduygu
MireKoc, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ahmet İçduygu is the former Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He currently holds a dual appointment as a full professor at Koç, one is in the Department of International Relations and the other is in the Department of Sociology. He is also the Director of the Migration Research Center at Koc (MiReKoc). He is an elected member of the Science Academy in Turkey. In addition to his research projects, Prof. İçduygu has conducted various research projects for international organizations such as IOM, UNHCR, EU, OECD and ILO. He teaches on migration studies, theories and practices of citizenship, international organizations, civil society, nationalism and ethnicity, and research methods.
Dr. Barak Kalir
IMES, University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Hanne Kavli
FAFO, Oslo, Norway
Hanne Cecilie Kavli is Head of Research at Fafo and a specialist in integration and diversity studies. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on issues related to the impacts of welfare and integration policy on immigrants’ economic and cultural adaptations, including labor market integration, gender equality, children of immigrants and attitudinal change.
Professor Majella Kilkey
Professor Majella Kilkey is Professor of Social Policy, University of Sheffield, where she directs the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group. She researches at the intersection of migration and family studies, focusing particularly on the intra-European Union mobility of European Union citizens, and issues of care, transnationality, ageing, gender, masculinities and work.
Prof. Eleonor Kofman
University of Middlesex, London, United Kingdom
Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship and co-Director of the Social Policy Research, Middlesex University London and Visiting Professor at the LSE Institute of Global Affairs. Her main research interests are in gendered migrations, in particular in relation to theoretical and policy aspects of family migrations, skilled migration and care and social reproduction. She has authored Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction, Palgrave Macmillan and co-edited Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration, University of Amsterdam Press, 2011 as well as articles in International Migration, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Social Politics. She is currently co-Director of the Migration and Displacement stream of the UKRI GCRF Hub Gender, Justice and Security (2019-2024), led by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, and collaborating with a number of academic and NGO partners in the Middle East and South Asia. She is a member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Board of IMISCOE.
www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/kofman-eleonore
Dr. Albert Kraler
DEMIG (Department for Migration and Globalisation), Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
Albert is Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the Department for Migration and Globalization at Danube University Krems. A political scientist by background (PhD from the University of Vienna), his current research focuses on global asylum and migration governance. Other research interests include migration statistics, regularization and family migration policy. Albert is also a member of the IMISCOE Editorial Board and the External Advisory Board.
Dr. Jean-Michel Lafleur
CEDEM (Centre d’Études de l’Ethnicité et des Migrations), University of Liège, Belgium
Jean-Michel Lafleur is Research Professor at the University of Liège, Associate Director of CEDEM and a Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). He also teaches different courses on Migration at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Liège. He holds a joint PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Sciences Po in Paris and the University of Liège (2008). Jean-Michel’s areas of expertise are the transnational dimension of contemporary migration, EU mobility, social protection and the political participation of immigrants. He currently holds a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on a project entitled “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in Post-crisis Europe”. During his career, Jean-Michel received different grants and scholarships to teach and conduct research in foreign institutions such as the Mora Institute in Mexico City, the European University Institute in Florence, the City University of New York (as a Fulbright scholar) and the City University of London.
Nathan Levy, MA
EUR, (Erasmus University Rotterdam), The Netherlands
Nathan Levy is a PhD candidate at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, studying research-policy dialogues on migration. He was also part of the co-ordination team of CrossMigration, which established the Migration Research Hub. He has published on the history and development of migration studies and is currently researching the role of knowledge in local-level migration policymaking.
Dr. Tuomas Martikainen
MIF, Turku, Finland
Prof. Marco Martiniello
CEDEM, University of Liège, Belgium
Ana Raquel Matias
CIES-IUL, Iscte-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Raquel Matias is a sociologist, Invited Assistant Professor and Research fellow at CIES-IUL, School of Sociology and Public Policy, Iscte, Portugal. Since 2003, she has been working on the intersection between sociology of international migration and language, comparing immigration and language policies in Europe and Portugal. More recently her research focus on language policies targeting both adults and children, at several scales: institutional, family and individual levels.
Lara Momesso
UCLan
Lara Momesso is lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). She is founder and Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile at UCLan, Co-Director of the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies at UCLan and Associate Head of the Institute for the Study of the Asia Pacific. Her research interests look at the specificity of gender in contemporary Asian migrations, the link between migration and political participation, the role of emotions in migration experiences. She has an extensive track record on her main research theme, marriage migration between China and Taiwan, with publications in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Asia Pacific Viewpoint, International Migration, Asia Pacific Migration Journal, and edited book chapters published by LIT Verlag (Migration – Geschlecht – Lebenswege) and Routledge (Taiwan’s Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou. From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers). More recently she has turned her attention towards Asian migrant experiences in Europe, including Taiwanese citizens’ diplomacy and Chinese migrant political participation in Europe.
Prof. Anders Neergaard
Remeso, (Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society), Linköping University, Sweden
Anders Neergaard, Professor, Director of REMESO. His research spans several fields: recruitment practices and working life careers with a focus on ethnicity/racialization, class and gender; political sociology focusing on extreme right-wing populism and racism and how populism in Europe has created new forms of political racism; collective organization - especially trade unions and migrant organizations and the intersection between class and ethnicity/racialization, but also gender. He is particularly interested in how migrant workers collective organisation, with a focus on trade unions and migrant organizations; He is also engaged in research on the Third World and North-South relationship, mainly through a perspective of political sociology and postcolonial theory.
Prof. dr. Birte Nienaber
FHSE, University of Luxembourg, Migration and Inclusive Societies (MIS), University of Luxembourg
Birte Nienaber has received her PhD in Geography from the University of Münster in 2005 and her habilitation from Saarland University in 2012. Since 2013, she works as an associate professor at the University of Luxembourg. As a political geographer, she specialises in migration and border studies and publishes on youth mobility and migration, integration, asylum, and border studies. She coordinates numerous EU-funded projects in the area of migration, such as the H2020 projects MIMY “EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions” and MOVE “Mapping mobility - pathways, institutions and structural effects of youth mobility in Europe”. She is/was also a work package leader in the FP7 project DERREG “Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization”, and in the H2020 projects CEASEVAL “Evaluation of the Common European Asylum System under Pressure and Recommendations for Further Development” and RELOCAL “Resituating the Local in Cohesion and Territorial Development” (which deals with spatial integration of marginalized people). Birte Nienaber further coordinates the national EU contact points EMN and FRANET. She is also actively involved in the University of Greater Region- Center for Border Studies as a member of the Steering Board. Additionally, Birte is the course director of the trinational Master in Border Studies at the University of Luxembourg.
Dr. Laura Oso
ESOMI, University of A Coruña, Spain
Laura Oso is a Senior Lecturer (Profesora Titular de Universidad) at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña where she held the post of Vice-Dean from 2009 to 2013. In 2016 she received the accreditation to Cátedra (Full Proffessor) from the Spanish Evaluation Agency (ANECA). Since 2011 she is the coordinator of ESOMI (The International Migration Sociology Team), being a member of the Executive Committee at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and Vice-president for International Activities at the Spanish Sociological Association (FES). Her research work has centered mainly on the study of gender and migration.
Prof. Ferruccio Pastore
FIERI, Turin, Italy
Ferruccio Pastore (PhD, European University Institute, 1996) is the Director of FIERI since May 2009. He has previously been Deputy Director of the international relations and European studies think-tank CeSPI (Centre for International Policy Studies, Rome) and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Firenze. Besides research, he has worked as an adviser on migration policy issues for Italian institutions and international organisations. He has published extensively on migration and integration policies and politics.
Prof. Claudia Pereira
CIES-IUL (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology), ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Lore van Praag
CeMIS (Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies), University of Antwerp, Belgium
Lore Van Praag, PhD., is the head of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp. She obtained a Master and PhD in Sociology at Ghent University. Her research interests are environmental migration and displacement, interethnic relations in schools, tracking, discrimination, early school leaving, and ethnography.
Òscar Prieto-Flores
University of Girona, Spain
Òscar Prieto-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Education and Psychology, University of Girona. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona in 2007 and was Visiting Scholar in 2006 of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, in 2012 of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. He is also Principal Investigator of the RECERCAIXA research project APPLYING MENTORING: Social and Technological Innovations for the Inclusion of Immigrant and Refugee Populations (2018–2021). Òscar has recently co-edited the book “Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion: Global approaches to Empowerment” published by Routledge.
Prof. dr. Parvati Raghuram
OU, London, United Kingdom
Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. She has published widely on retheorising migration of international students and skilled migrants, particularly women in the IT sector and medicine. She is currently leading a grant on contextualising peace education in Nigeria and Zimbabwe which explores the decolonisation of education as a pedagogical challenge in interdisciplinary and intercontinental research. She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-tanks. She co-edits the journal South Asian Diaspora with the Centre for Study of Diaspora, Hyderabad and the Palgrave Pivot series Mobility and Politics.
Prof. Andreas Pott
IMIS, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Dr. Justyna Salamonska
CMR (Centre of Migration Research), University of Warsaw, Poland
Justyna Salamońska is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. Justyna holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin. She previously carried out research and taught at Trinity College Dublin, University of Chieti and European University Institute. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary migrations in Europe, multiple migrations, migrant labour market integration, cross-border mobilities, quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Dr. Marie Sandberg
AMIS, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities.
Joint editor-in-chief (with Monique Scheer) of Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology.
Marie Sandberg is an ethnologist with a research focus on everyday life Europeanisation, European borders and migration practices. From 2019 she is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at University of Copenhagen. She is the PI of the research network Helping Hands: Research Network on the Everyday Border Work ofEuropean Citizens funded by the Danish Research Council for Independent Research, and Co-PI of the core-group project Diginauts: Migrants’ digital practices in/of the European border regime funded by the Velux Foundations 2018-2020. She has organized several international research conferences and published a number of peer- reviewed articles in high-ranked journals such as Identities and Journal of European Studies, as well as edited volumes. Marie Sandberg is vividly engaged in discussions within international as well as Nordic fields of migration and border studies. For instance, she studies how borders in/of everyday life are continuously negotiated, overcome, and rebuilt in interactions such as volunteer work in support of refugees coming to Europe.
saxoinstitute.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/165782
Prof. dr. Marlou Schrover
LIMS, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Marlou Schrover is a professor of Migration History at Leiden University. She hold the chair of Economic and Social History. She has published extensively on many aspects of migration with emphasis on the intersection of class, gender, religion, ethnicity and sexuality. She is co-founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Migration History.
Prof. Giuseppe Sciortino
University of Trento, Italy
Giuseppe Sciortino (Ph.D, Bologna) teaches sociology at the università di Trento, Italy. His main research interests are international migration, international development, and social theory.
Dr. Sarah Scuzzarello
SCMR (Sussex Center for Migration Research), University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
Sarah Scuzzarello is a Research Fellow in Cross-national Comparative Politics at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR). Her research focuses on two strands: comparative integration politics and effects on integroup relations; and gender and transnatioanl migration. Sarah’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing from politics, feminist theory, and political psychology.
Prof. dr. Marie Louise Seeberg
NOVA, Oslo, Norway
Dr. Inmaculada Serrano
IUEM, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid
She is a Senior Researcher at the IUEM, where she coordinates the H2020 IMMERSE project. She is also the Director of the international journal Migraciones. Her research focuses on international migration and forced migration, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies with an interdisciplinary approach.
Dr. Kyoko Shinozaki
PLUS-MMG (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg), Salzburg, Austria
Dr. Patrick Simon
INED, Paris, France
Patrick Simon is a socio-demographer, Director of research at INED (Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques –National demographic institute) (F), and a fellow researcher at the Center for European Studies (CEE) at Sciences Po. He is chairing the department on integration and discrimination at the Institute for migration since 2018. He is a member of the Advisory board of the NCCR program On the Move in Switzerland and of the WZB (Wissenshaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung).
Dr. Andrea Spehar
CGM, (Centre on Global Migration), University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Andrea Spehar is associate professor in political science and director of Centre on Global Migration (CGM) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her fields of interest comprise migration and gender policy development in Europe. Her work has appeared, among others, in the Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Eastern European Politics & Societies and International Feminist Journal of Politics.
www.gu.se/omuniversitetet/personal/?userId=xspean&departmentId=022490
Dr. Ida Tolgensbakk
Ida Tolgensbakk is a cultural historian, with a special interest in migration history and internal mobility within the Nordic region. Tolgensbakk also coordinates the Working Group on Migration and Transnationality at SVA.
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou
Ryerson University, Toronto
Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She was previously Robert Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, and also chairs the IMISCOE Editorial Committee.
She has written extensively on migration policy, governance and nationalism. For more information on her work please visit: www.ryerson.ca/cerc-migration and www.annatriandafyllidou.com
Isabella Trombetta
PhD-Network, IMISCOE
Dr. Gorka Urrutia Asua
DEUSTO, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Gorka Urrutia Asua holds a PhD in International and Intercultural Studies, University of Deusto; Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology, University of the Basque Country; Specialist Diploma in International Humanitarian Action-NOHA, UD and University of Uppsala. He has worked with NGOs, governmental and international organisations in the field of international cooperation in Europe and South America. His research currently focuses on human rights, migrations, diversity and religion.
Prof. Helga de Valk
NIDI, The Hague, The Netherlands
Helga de Valk is theme leader ‘Migration and Migrants’ at NIDI and professor of Migration and the life course at the University of Groningen. She was awarded the PhD in sociology from Utrecht University (2006). Her research focuses on migration and integration issues, the transition to adulthood of immigrant youth, union and family formation, the second generation, segregation, and European mobility. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2010 FamiLife) and acquired an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018 MYMOVE). Furthermore she led and was part of a range of national and international projects funded amongst others by Horizon 2020 and Norface. She was editor in chief of the European Journal of Population (EJP; 2014-2018) and winner of the 2016 European Demography Award. She is currently president elect of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and member of the Advisory Committee for Migration Affairs (ACVC).
Prof. dr. Steven Vertovec
MPI-MMG, Göttingen, Germany
Prof. Steven Vertovec is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Honorary Professor of Ethnology and Sociology, University of Göttingen, Germany. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). Prof. Vertovec is author of five books including Transnationalism (Routledge, 2009) and Super-diversity (Routledge, forthcoming), and editor or co-editor of thirty-six volumes including Conceiving Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2003), The Multicultural Backlash (Routledge 2010), the International Handbook of Diversity Studies (Routledge, 2015), Diversities Old and New (Palgrave, 2015), and the Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Prof. Vertovec has acted as expert or consultant for numerous agencies, including the UK Home Office and Department for International Development, British Council, the European Commission, the G8, World Bank and UNESCO.
Prof. Maarten Vink
MACIMIDE, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Maarten Vink is Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). Vink currently leads the research project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)” funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021). Vink is also Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a web platform that is part of the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Dr. Daniele Vintila
CEDEM (Centre d’Études de l’Ethnicité et des Migrations), University of Liège, Belgium
Daniela Vintila is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies of the University of Liege. She previously carried out research at the University of Leicester. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her interests lie, especially, in the areas of comparative politics, EU politics, citizenship, international migration, political mobilisation, and social policy. She is co-coordinator of IMISCOE SC MIGCITPOL, chair of the ECPR SG Migration and Ethnicity and vice-chair of IPSA RC03 European Unification.
Prof.dr. Anja Weiß
InZentIM, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Anja Weiß is Professor for Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her theoretical interests in the sociology of global inequalities translate into comparative empirical research on high skilled migrants, the glocalization of professional medical knowledge, (institutional) racism and legal exclusion, as well as qualitative research design. She co-published “Work in Transition. Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market” (2014) Toronto UP. A German book on “Sociology of Global Inequalities” has appeared 2017 with Suhrkamp Publishers.
Prof. Rebecca Wickes
MMIC (Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Rebecca Wickes is the Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. She is an Associate Professor and Head of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences (SoSS), Monash University. Her research focuses on demographic changes in urban communities and their influence on social cohesion and the concentration of social problems.
Prof. dr. John Wrench
CDI, Trondheim, Norway
John Wrench is Visiting Professor in the Centre for Diversity and Inclusion at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and Honorary Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has researched and published in the area of ethnic inclusion and discrimination in the labour market at the University of Warwick and the University of Southern Denmark, and for several years was responsible for comparative research projects on migration at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna.
Prof. Ricard Zapata-Barrero
GRITIM, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Master Program in Migration Studies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European Network IMISCOE and Chair of the External Affairs Committee, Co-Coordinator of IMISCOE Standing Committee on Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research, Current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration) and EUMedMi Jean Monnet Network “Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies”. He is also a member of editorial boards of several academic journals and an occasional contributor to media and policy debates.