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I am currently professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). I am co-founder and member of the Centro di Documentazione sulle Migrazioni (CeDoM). My research interests are on inter-Italian and international migration and mobilities. My recent research work has been focusing on the new migration waves from southern Europe.

Doctor in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at EHESS, Francesco Madrisotti's research focused on transnational mobilities and economic activities created by West African migrants settled in Morocco. Through his Ph.D thesis, he showed that these migrants are the actors of a subordinate mobility based on informal economic activities. In order to prove so he made a two year ethnography including participant observations and semi-structured interviews in Tangier-Morocco. After obtaining his Ph.D, he joined the project Momentum (CNRS- URMIS, University of Paris) as postdoctoral researcher. In this position, using an experimental methodology and through the quantitative analysis, he studied discriminatory treatment towards the Muslim population. He was particularly interested in the expression of degrading attitudes through non-verbal language in face-to-face interactions. To study these behaviours, he carried out field experiments based on an audio-visual data collection device in the Paris and Brussels subways stations. Generally speaking, his research work aims to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as algorithms and big data analysis techniques into the analysis of transnational mobility and discrimination. Since October 2020, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the MigraChiCovid project at the CERMES3 research center (CNRS-EHESS-INSERM-University of Paris).

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Coruña (Societies in Motion research team) and co-founder and co-director of INTEGRIM Lab. I am interested in migration and inclusion policies, identity politics, and in how categories of inclusion/exclusion are created and maintained across different settings in a comparative perspective.

Born in Cracow, Poland, Wiktor lives in London. He is an MSc International Social and Public Policy candidate at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He carries out his independent research affiliated in CASPAR lab, Cracow University of Economics.

He works as a consultant for the Centre for Strategy in Evaluation Services (CSES) LLP, where he has been involved in the research on European public policies commissioned by the clients such as the DG EAC, DG JUST, DG GROW, the European Parliament, and others.

I am a research fellow (postdoc starting November 2023) at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. I study irregularised migration and removal as an anthropologist and work at the intersections of critical border studies and the field of “affective sciences” to bring to light the undeniable power of emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes in the migratory lives of people subjected to unequal mobility through restrictive border regimes.

I am a social and political psychologist whose research seeks to support dialogue between citizens and their governments on vexed political questions such as migration, sovereignty, European and Global citizenship.
I moved from the Scottish Government to the Open University in 2007. As a psychologist I am particularly interested in the conditions when people move from public opinion to public dialogue.
My starting point is that public decision-making on migration, citizenship and the boundaries of belonging often inter-relate with an individual's own degree of migration-mobility. I measure this using a 10-point Migration-Mobility Continuum. I have set out the relationship between the MMC and integration, citizenship, populism, sense of home and one-world narrative (OWN) in a series of open-access publications.

Sowmya Maheswaran is doing her PhD at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University (Berlin) and is a doctoral fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation. At the intersection of global and political anthropology, her dissertation deals with political subjectivities of dissidents and their cultures of resistance in violent contexts. Postcolonial negotiations and global entanglements of racism, nationalism, and migration/(im-)mobilities in war and post-war situations form her central lines of research. The ethnographic focus of the ongoing PhD project is on Tamil conflicts and struggles in Sri Lanka and related transnational diaspora movements.