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I'm a Sociologist with a specific interest in Migration Studies, Transnationalization and Empirical Social Research. In my PhD thesis I analysed dynamics of change in transnational families. Currently I coordinate an action oriented project on local integration policies and intra-EU mobility between Romania, Bulgaria and the Ruhr Area in Germany (eu2migraruhr.eu). Before my position at RUB I lived and did research in Spain, Ecuador, Belgium,The Netherlands. I have professional experience in the media sector.

Benjamin Schraven is a Consultant and an Associate Senior Fellow of the German Development Institute. He holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Bonn. In the past years, his research activities have mainly been focusing on the issue of "migration as adaptation", migration and rural development, migration and development and migration governance (with a regional focus on Ghana/West Africa). In 2016, Benjamin has been seconded as scientific advisor for migration issues to the Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Between 2009 and 2014 he has also been active as a Guest Lecturer at the University of Ghana. Futhermore, he has done migration related consultancy work a.o. for the World Bank, UNICEF and several several development cooperation agencies.

I am currently a Phd Candidate on Migration and Globalisation and my research project is on return and reintegration between Europe and Nigeria.
I a have also previously worked many years in various UN and other international organisations on crime -related and human rights issues such as human trafficking and smuggling in West and East Africa and Europe .
My academic background is in Criminology and Psychology.

I am a PhD student at the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University Copenhagen. In my PhD project, I explore LGBTIQ+ refugees experiences with 'integrating' in Berlin and Copenhagen in navigating societal norms and expectations. I have an interest in queer and feminist studies. I am a PhD fellow at the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and have previously received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Foundation (DAAD) and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.

Tanja Schroot holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and works currently as post-doc researcher at the University of Turin. Her particular research interests and several publications are located in the field of intra-European (qualified) mobility and its intersections with education, socio-professional integration of migrant parents, and transnational family organisation. Particular focus of her latest research studies has been on the Romanian diaspora in Italy.

Marlou Schrover is a full professor of migration history, holds the chair of Economic and Social History at Leiden University, and in this capacity leads a team of about 30 researchers. She has more than 170 publications including 7 books and 5 edited volumes. In 2013, she successfully concluded a vici project. She has served on the PhD committee of 50 PhD candidates, and annually supervises 20 master students and 25 bachelor students in writing their thesis. Currently she is (co-)supervising 10 PhD students. Most of her publications are on subjects related to this project: gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, policy, migration, intersectionality, discourses and media, and the public vs private sphere. She has extensive experience in working with the material and methods suggested for this project.
Leiden University is internally recognised as a leader in the field of migration research. In 2006, Schrover organised the migration researchers at Leiden University into the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS), which currently has 170 members. LIMS is a member of IMISCOE (Europe’s largest migration research network). Schrover is the co-founder of the highly successful interdisciplinary LDE master sub-track Governance of Migration and Diversity, which is run with partners from Delft University (Urban Studies), the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Public Administration and Sociology) and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (International Studies).
Schrover has been awarded 2.1 million euro’s in grants. In addition, she has, with others, been granted in 2019 by Leiden University 3.5 million euros of so-called Stimuleringsgelden, enabling the collaboration of migration researchers within Leiden University. With this money the History Department had been able to hire as a member of staff dr. Andrew Shield, who is a specialist in the field of sexuality, migration, and intimate citizenship. The LDE master has been expanded by the addition of an LDE research centre. For this the Erasmus University, Delft University and Leiden University provided 1 million euros which enabled each of the participants (including the History Department) to hire staff to do research in the field of governance of migration and diversity.
Schrover has a large number of other leadership tasks including editor-in-chief of the Journal of Migration History, board member of the Leiden History Institute, the ESSHC, and The Posthumus Institute (research school of Social and Economic History). She frequently speaks in front of non-academic audiences, appears in the press regularly, and talks with people working for NGOs, at Ministries, and with policy makers. She organises (with others) monthly interdisciplinary gatherings on migration research, plus a yearly conference that is attended by academics and non-academic participants. These contacts will be used for this project. She has experience with converting research outcomes to larger non-academic audiences (including an exhibition, school project, and theatre play).

I am a linguistic anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum of Ethnography, University of Oxford, where I also successfully completed my PhD (DPhil) in 2021.

My research explores the impacts of Germany’s state-sanctioned language-integration requirements on newcomers’ socioeconomic (im)mobility. In so doing, my work addresses the lingua-temporal dimensions of migration, displacement and policy-in-practice, exploring themes of temporal disruption, uncertainty, waiting, stuckness and boredom.

My ongoing work is also concerned with the relationship between language proficiency requirements and newcomer access to the German labour market, exploring how underlying societal expectations for linguistic integration, as well as bureaucratic and administrative procedures, intersect with newcomers’ own decision-making and future-building.

My research has been funded be the School of Anthropology and Museum of Ethnography, Oxford.

Most recently, I joined the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University as a Visiting Student Research Collaborator (fall/winter 2019).

Dr. Susanne U. Schultz is as a Project Manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, in “Making fair migration a reality,” where she focuses on aspects of legal migration, global skills partnerships and migration cooperation with a particular view on (West) African countries. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Bielefeld University on (forced) return migration to Mali. She has published on deportation, masculinities, EU externalization, West African migration, training and youth. From 2009 to 2013, she worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Switzerland, Turkey and Germany.