Melanie Griffiths

Senior Research Associate & ESRC Future Research Leader (2014-2018), University of Birmingham

Liz Mavroudi

Reader in Human Geography, Loughborough University

Jakub Bijak

Joint Head of Social Statistics and Demography, Professor of Statistical Demography, University of Southampton

Brenda Yeoh

Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography & Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Jørgen Carling

Research Professor & Co-Director PRIO Migration Centre, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Tanya Golash-Boza

Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced.

She is the author of five books, the latest of which is Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press 2015). In addition, Golash-Boza has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on deportations, racial identity, critical race theory, and human rights.

Miri Song

Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent.

She is the author of several books, including Multiracial Parents: Mixed Race Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race (NYU Press, 2017). Song’s current research project, 'Racial Identities and Life Choices among Mixed-Heritage People in the United States', is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation.

Mirna Safi

Associate Professor at Sciences Po and Head of the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC), a research center devoted to research on social inequality in contemporary societies.

Safi is the author of the book Migration and Inequality (Polity Press, 2019). Her current research focuses on the impact of immigration on ethnoracial stratification in the French society, anti-discrimination policies at the workplace, ethnic minorities, residential mobility, and locational choice.

Arnfinn Midtbøen

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo and co-founder of the IMISCOE Research Cluster Discrimination in Cross-National Perspective.

His most recent book is Migration and Discrimination (co-authored with Rosita Fibbi and Patrick Simon, Springer, 2021). Midtbøen’s current research focuses on the incorporation of descendants of immigrants in Norway, and meta-analyses of audit studies of racial and ethnic discrimination in labor markets across the world.

Loren B Landau

Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford, Research Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration & Society, and co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL)

Nina Sahraoui

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research, GTM-CRESPPA, CNRS

Mehari Taddele Maru

Part-time Professor Migration Policy Centre and Academic Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Programme at the School of Transnational Governance, EUI; Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)

Leila Hadj-Abdou

Lecturer at the University of Vienna, and Assistant Professor at the Migration Policy Centre, EUI

Tahseen Shams

Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Toronto

Thomas Lacroix

CNRS Research director at CERI-Sciences Po Paris

Maggi Leung

Professor of International Development Studies at University of Amsterdam

Özge Bilgili

Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University

Ilke Adam

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ilke Adam is an Associate Professor in Political Science. She is the co-director of the Research Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice at the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Together with Florian Trauner, she also coordinates the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM) at VUB, which unites over 100 researchers from 12 disciplines. Her research interests include immigration, immigrant integration, anti-racism and anti-discrimination policies, with a particular focus on the multi-level governance of these policies. She studies local, regional, national and European policies, as well as the interactions between governance levels. Beyond research on public policies, Adam's research interests extend to the study of multiculturalism, citizenship, anti-racist activism and sub-state nationalism.

Kolar Aparna

Helsinki University

Kolar Aparna is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for European Studies, University of Helsinki. She is a geographer and woman of colour with a passion for producing situated knowledges on borders, displacement and mobilities that move relationally across spatio-temporalities of imperial, colonial and settler legacies shaping the present.

Adham Aly

Erasmus Rotterdam University

I am Adham Aly, MsC in Public Administration with specialization in Governance of Migration and Diversity at Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL. I am an academic tutor and junior lecturer at EUR, specifically the faculty of Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (ESSB) within the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS). I am also the former Network Officer for IMISCOE and currently the leading researcher for WP1 SPRING.

Anders Neergaard

Linköping University

Anders Neergaard, sociologist at REMESO, Linköping university. Neergaard’s research focuses on power, inequality, resistance, solidarities and social movements, linked to racism and anti-racism, and class and gender. Recent co-written publications include “Why are care workers from the global south disadvantaged?” ERS (2020); “Crisis of Solidarity? Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden”. Critical Sociology (2019); “Theorising racism: exploring the Swedish racial regime”. NJMR (2017.

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez

Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a Professor in Sociology with a focus on Culture and Migration at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Previously to this position, she was Professor in General Sociology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Moreover, she is a Visiting Professor at the Department for Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on gender, migration, and care work, and engages post Marxist and decolonial perspectives, feminist and queer epistemologies. She has been an early and staunch advocate of decolonial theory in the German-speaking world. Among her many publications is the important book Migration, Domestic Work and Affect, published by Routledge (2010). More recently she has published with Shirley Anne Tate the Palgrave Handbook in Critical Race and Gender and with Rhoda Reddock Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and the Caribbean. Her work engages with affective labor, materialities, institutional racism, racial capitalism and the coloniality of migration.

Thais França

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-Department of Sociology

Parvati Raghuram

Professor of Geography and Migration, The Open University

Russell King

Professor of Geography, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex

Valentina Mazzucato

Professor of Globalisation & Development, Maastricht University

Paweł Kaczmarczyk

Professor of Economics & Director Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw

Marta Bivand Erdal

Research Professor & Co-Director PRIO Migration Centre, Peace Research Institute Oslo