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 (BD Chair)
ISR, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Wiebke Sievers is senior researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and lecturer at the department of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Exile and Migration at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. Her research focuses on migration, art and culture. Together with Marco Martiniello, she coordinates the IMISCOE Standing Committee Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (DIVCULT). With Rainer Bauböck, she is co-editor of the series „Migration &“, which aims to make international migration research accessible to a wider German-speaking readership.
Prof. dr. Jean-Michel Lafleur
Coordinator
CEDEM
ULiège (University of Liège)
Belgium
Dr. Daniela Vintila
Senior Network Officer
CEDEM, 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.
Angeliki Konstantinidou
Network Officer
CEDEM
ULiège (University of Liège)
Belgium
Prof. Ilke Adam
IES (Institute for European Studies), Free University Brussels, Belgium
Ilke Adam is the director Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, which unites over 100 researchers from 12 disciplines and a political science professor at the Brussels School of Governance at the same university. Adam has a long track record of interdisciplinary research and teaching on immigration and diversity, equality and inclusion policies (under many of its different labels: equality, anti-discrimination, anti-racism, immigrant integration, diversity), with a more recent focus on anti-racist activism and ethno-racial inequalities in higher education. Adam is currently a consortium partner in two Horizon 2020 projects (BRIDGES and WHOLE-COM) and also conducts research and prepares publications on anti-racist activism in Europe and EU-Africa relations on migration. She teaches 'Diversity Policies in the EU' and 'EU immigration policies' in the Advanced Master in European Integration at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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
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
Ilse Derluyn is full professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research topics concern the psychosocial wellbeing of young refugees and migrants, unaccompanied refugee minors, victims of trafficking and war-affected children, both in the Global North and South. She has widely published and is also active in trainings and support for practitioners and policymakers. Ilse also gives counselling to refugees. Ilse is ERC-grant holder of the research project ChildMove (www.childmove.eu) and coordinated the H2020-project RefugeesWellSchool (www.refugeeswellschool.org). She is director of the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) at Ghent University, and co-director of the Centre for Children in Vulnerable Situations (CCVS).
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. 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.
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.
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.
Peter Scholten
EUR, (Erasmus University Rotterdam), The Netherlands
Peter Scholten is full professor in the governance of migration and diversity at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus center on Governance of Migration and Diversity and coordinator of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities. Within Erasmus University, he is academic lead of the interdisciplinary team on Policy, Politics and Society. Also Peter is editor in chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. He has published extensively on themes as multi-level governance, urban inclusion and anti-discrimination, and on the development of migration studies as a research field. See www.peterscholten.eu
Saara Pellander
MIF, Turku, Finland
Prof. Marco Martiniello
CEDEM, University of Liège, Belgium
Marco MARTINIELLO (1960) is Research Director at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS) and Director of CEDEM (Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations) at the University of Liège, where he teaches the sociology of migration, interethnic relations and racism. He chairs the Doctoral College in Political and Social Sciences at the same university. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the IMISCOE European Research Network. He was Chairman of the Sociology of Migration Research Committee of the International Sociological Association until 2014. He has been a visiting professor or researcher at Columbia University, New York University, Cornell University, the University of Malmö (Sweden), Sciences Po Paris, the University of Warwick (UK), the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), the University of Kwazulu Natal (Durban, South Africa), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the European Colleague (Natolin, Poland), the City University of New York, the University of Geneva and the University of Warwick. His work is in the field of political sociology. It focuses on the relationship between the arts, culture, sport, immigration and ethnicised and racialised minorities. He is also interested in transnationalism, migration policy, citizenship, multiculturalism, racism and the political mobilisation of immigrants and minorities in Europe and North America.
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
Birte Nienaber has received her PhD in Geography from the University of Münster and her habilitation from Saarland University. Since 2013, she works as an associate professor at the University of Luxembourg. She coordinated numerous EU-funded projects in the area of migration, such as the H2020 projects MIMY and MOVE. She was also a work package leader in the FP7 project DERREG, and in the H2020 projects CEASEVAL and RELOCAL. Now she is part of the HEUProject INNOVATE and coordinates the national EU contact points EMN and FRANET. She is also involved in the UniGR-CBS as a member of the Steering Board and as the course director of the trinational Master in Border Studies. She works for the national OECD-SOPEMI report, is member of the monitoring committees of the national programmes of the ESF+, AMIF, ISF and BVMI and member of the German Advisory Board on Spatial Development.
Dr. Laura Oso
ESOMI, University of A Coruña, Spain
Laura Oso is a Professor of Sociology at the University of A Coruña, Spain. She is the coordinator of ESOMI (Societies in Motion Research Team) and Deputy Director of CISPAC (Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes). She has led research programmes and published extensively on issues related to migration, gender, labour market and development. For more information about her current projects and publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-6196
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.
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 is the Academic director of the Master’s degree in Migratory Movements at UdG. PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona in 2007 and 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 SAFESPACES research project “Mentoring, Wellbeing and Mental Health of Racialized Migrants and Refugees” (2023–2025). Òscar has recently co-edited the book “Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion: Global approaches to Empowerment” published by Routledge.
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.
Prof. dr. Parvati Raghuram (EB Chair)
OU, London, United Kingdom
Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. She has published widely on gender, migration and development and on postcolonial theory. Her most recent AHRC funded project is Decolonising Peace Education in Africa where she is looking at care ethics, an abiding interest. She is also part of the project Migration and Inclusive African Growth and Writing International Student Migration in Africa. She is Chair of the Executive Board of IMISCOE. She co-edits the book series Mobility and Politics (Palgrave) and is an associate editor of The Geographical Journal.
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.
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 (PhD Lund University) is Associate Professor of Migration at the University of Sussex and affiliated researcher at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. She is the co-founding co-coordinator of the IMISCOE’s Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM) and an elected member of the IMISCOE Executive Board. Her research focuses on how migration and intergroup relations are affected and shaped by gender relations and sexuality; and on how institutional discourses and policies shape migrants’ collective identification and life chances. Sarah as conducted work in the UK, Sweden, Italy and Thailand, often from a comparative perspective. Her research has been widely published in leading international journals and academic presses. She is the Associate Editor of the top-ranking Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Editorial Board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Between 20014-2018 she was Editorial Manager for the international journal Political Psychology. She has held visiting positions at the Humboldt University Berlin (2023), Columbia University (2017), the University of Bristol (2007), and the University of East London (2009). profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p355448-sarah-scuzzarello
Dr. Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau
IUEM, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid
Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau is a political scientist with a PhD in Political Science and International Relations. His thesis consisted of an international analysis of the structural function filled by migrations in sustaining agricultural production in the global core. He is currently a senior researcher at the University Institute for Migration Studies (IUEM) at Comillas Pontifical University, where he also teaches the master’s degree in International Migration and the PhD programme in International Migration and Development Cooperation. Since 2024, he is editor-in-chief of the journal "Migraciones" (https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistamigraciones) and president of the Research Committee 32 "International Studies, Area Studies and Globalisation" of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) since 2020. Yoan has participated in several national and European projects and has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Population Studies (CENEP) belonging to CONICET in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Institute of International Studies (IEI) of the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile; and the Institute on the Quality of Life from the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of diverse research articles on migration, agricultural labour, global environmental governance and structuralism in International Relations.
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
Pr. Anna Triandafyllidou
Ryerson University, Toronto
Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is also the Scientific Director of a $98.4 mln multi-University and multi-partner Research Program entitled Bridging Divides funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Prior to joining TMU in 2019, she held a Robert Schuman Chair at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She is Editor of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. In 2021, the University of Liège awarded Triandafyllidou a doctorate honoris causa in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship. Her recent work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2022), Environment and Planning A: Economy and Society (2022), Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (2024, 2023); Ethnicities (2024, 2023, 2022), Comparative Migration Studies (2022, 2021), International Migration (2022, 2019), Journal of International Migration and Integration (2023), and Nations and Nationalism (2020)
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 Superdiversity: Migration and Social Complexity (Routledge, 2022 Open Access), 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, 2023). 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.
Dr. Karlijn Haagsman
MACIMIDE, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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. 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. Paul Long
MMIC (Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Ricard Zapata-Barrero
GRITIM, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spainy
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.
Prof. dr. Helen Schwenken
IMIS, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Helen is Professor of Migration and Society at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences and at the Institute for Migration Studies and Intercultural Relations (IMIS) of the University of Osnabrück in Germany. In her research she focuses on labour migration and cross-border labour markets and related infrastructures. She looks at all migration-related issues from and gender and intersectional perspective to better understand the reproduction and persistence of inequalities. In her research on social movements she focuses on the role of challengers and questions of how things could be different. Helen is Director of IMIS since January 2021 and within IMISCOE she is member of the Editorial Committee of the IMISCOE book series..
Dr. Anja van Heelsum
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Anja van Heelsum is associate professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, program group leader of the research group “Challenges of Democratic Representation” and a board member of the the Amsterdam Research Centre on Migration (ARC-M). Her research focuses on the interplay between migrants' motives and migration policies, with a variety of subthemes, including migration governance, stigmatization, refugee reception, local policies, ethnicity, political participation of immigrants, migrant organisations, and Islam, and she is also an expert on Ethiopia. She recently coordinated the Horizon2020 project Advancing Alternative Migration Governance.
Dr. Lara Momesso
Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile at UCLan
Lara Momesso is senior lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Psychology and Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). She is founder and Deputy Director of the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX), Co-Director of the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies (NorITS), Deputy Director of the Institute in Area and Migration Studies (AMIS) and Associate Head of the Institute for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP) at UCLan. 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, refugee experiences and protection in East Asia. She has an extensive track record in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Asia Pacific Viewpoint, International Migration, Asia Pacific Migration Journal. She has edited a book on refugee experiences, protection and integration in Japan and Taiwan (Springer) and her monograph exploring affective and emotional practices in the context of marriage migration between China and Taiwan is forthcoming (Manchester University Press). Lara also funder and host of two podcast series, Taiwan on Air, featuring interviews with artists, writers, academics, professionals with an interest in Taiwan, and Voices of Lancashire, featuring interviews with immigrants who reside in Northern England.
Dr. Francesca Stella
University of Glasgow, UK
Francesca Stella is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching focus on migration, sexuality and gender. She was lead investigator on the ESRC-funded project ‘Intimate Migrations’ (2015-17), which explored the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender migrants from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Scotland, and on the project ‘Language learning and migrant ‘integration’ in Scotland’ (British Academy, 2019-23). She is a long-standing member of GRAMNet, , a network based at the University of Glasgow that brings together researchers, practitioners and activists working on migration and asylum. She is the Programme Convenor of the Masters Global Migrations and Social Justice. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/francescastella/
Dr. Aneta Piekut
Sheffield Methods Institute, the University of Sheffield
Aneta is Senior Lecure at the Sheffield Methods Institute, the University of Sheffield. Together with Dr Lucy Mayblin and Dr Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli she co-leads Migration Research Group (MRG) which is an interdisciplinary network of migration scholars in the Faculty of Social Sciences. MRG is also a member of Yorkshire and Humber Migration Research Network, and a home to Centre for Doctoral Training on ‘New Horizons in Borders and Bordering’. Aneta's research focuses on research methods in migration research, social inclusion, spatial segregation, community cohesion and attitudes to immigration. She published widely in leading academic journals on issues of migration, ethnicity and segregation (e.g. European Sociological Review, Sociology, Social Science Research, Social & Cultural Geography, International Sociology, JEMS).
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/people/academic/aneta-piekut
Dr. Floor Verhaeghe
CESSMIR, Ghent University
Floor Verhaeghe is the coordinator of the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees at Ghent University. In this role, she fosters collaborations between the various disciplines within CESSMIR and with partners outside of academia. The goal is to achieve societal impact as a result of these collaborations. Floor’s background is in educational sciences and social work, her research was on inter- and multigenerational aspects of families with a migration background and on psychosocial well-being of unaccompanied minors and families on the move.
Dr. Anja van Heelsum
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Anja van Heelsum is associate professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, program group leader of the research group “Challenges of Democratic Representation” and a board member of the the Amsterdam Research Centre on Migration (ARC-M). Her research focuses on the interplay between migrants' motives and migration policies, with a variety of subthemes, including migration governance, stigmatization, refugee reception, local policies, ethnicity, political participation of immigrants, migrant organisations, and Islam, and she is also an expert on Ethiopia. She recently coordinated the Horizon2020 project Advancing Alternative Migration Governance.
Prof.dr. Kristian Rose Tronstad
NIBR, OsloMet university, Norway
Tronstad is Research Director at the department of International Studies and Migration (NIBR). He has more than 20 years of research on migration and integration issues. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field, including research on migration flows, discrimination, living conditions, and lately comparative analysis of refugees settlement and labour market integration. Tronstad also teaches Migration and Integration Management at Oslo Metropolitan University.
Prof. Jacqueline Broadhead
COMPAS, University of Oxford
Jacqueline Broadhead is Co-Director of Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, at the University of Oxford, managing knowledge exchange and research projects which aim to promote the reciprocal sharing of expertise among academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Jacqui’s own work focusses on local government and integration, including leading ‘Inclusive Cities’ – a network of 12 UK cities focussed on improving integration outcomes.