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I work as an assistant professor at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic. I am interested in the interplay between migration, cities and development. My current research projects revolve around the themes of highly skilled migration, migration governance, and return migration.

As a night ethnographer and migration scholar, for the past decade Julius-Cezar Macarie (or MacQuarie) has reached out to migrant nightshift workers working around the clock in European cities, because he is concerned with their invisibility from public debates, political agendas, and scholarly fields.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nightwork, nighttime economy, decent work agenda, transnational migration, social justice policies, multi-sited and multi-modal nocturnal ethnography, producing films and podcasts applied to research and teaching on migration and labour dynamics.

In July 2022, I have completed a project on Inequalities in Siliconised Romanian Cities, as 'Stefan Odobleja' Post-doctoral fellow, New Europe College (NEC) 2021 Award, Bucharest, Romania, while I was also affiliated with the Inequalities Workgroup, Democracy Institute, Central European University, Hungary. Since September 2022, I have joined the Institute for Social Science for the 21st century, University College Cork, Ireland, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to research the production of marginalisation of women migrant nightworkers in Ireland. I will concentrate on women because they are further invisibilised in the masculinised environments of evening and nightwork and are more likely to be abused at work due to behaviours linked to patriarchy.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association | Member
European Association for Social Anthropologists | Member
International Night Studies Network | Night Working Group Leader
INTEGRIM (Integration of Migrants and International Migration) | Research Affiliate Member
Nightworkshop | Founder and campaigner of the Nightworker Charter

Magdalena is a Professor in Anthropology (UBA), with a master's degree in Latin American Literature (UNTEF), a diploma as Specialist in Digital Strategy (SAWI) currently pursuing a CAS in Civilian Peacebuilding Essentials (University of Basel & Swisspeace).
Magdalena has worked on human rights and minority rights, migrations, diasporas, comparative literature and literature and exile, and peacebuilding.
She has worked for the international cooperation sector in Communications and also in project management, within the UN System (UNFPA, UN-Migration/IOM), for a European project on Diasporas, and with grassroots organisations (AICRA, Mesemrom). She has also worked as a consultant in Switzerland and Latin America.
Her areas of expertise are institutional communications, communications for the humanitarian, digital strategy, storytelling, audiovisual creation, project management, and methodologies / research.

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 sociologist with an expertise on migrant integration and migrant solidarity, and I specialise in qualitative methodologies. Since 2019 I am a Lecturer in Sociology and Policy in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University (Birmingham, UK). I am also Visiting Professor at the UIC – Barcelona as part of the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture, for which I run a class on ‘Camps, politics and space’, exploring the ambiguities and theories on residential segregation in camps.

My comparative research focuses on racial segregation and pro-migrant collective action, with a specific attention to social inequalities in urban contexts through qualitative methods. In the last ten years, I have conducted extensive research in France, Italy and the UK.

Prior to joining Aston University, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Leicester as part of the ESRC-funded project The Frames of Altruistic Action. I was also member of the French project MARG-IN (“Marginalization/Inclusion: Regulatory Policies Effects in the Long Run. The Case of Romanian Roma Migrants”) that explored the exclusion and inclusion dynamics of Romania Roma migrants France, Italy and Spain and that was conducted by Université de Tours, Université de Poitiers and Centre d’Études Européennes, Sciences Po Paris.

My PhD research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and focused on the persistence of the housing segregation of the Roma people and Algerian migrants in in Rome and Paris. It has been published as a book with Palgrave Macmillan: Temporary Camps, Enduring Segregation. The Contentious Politics of Roma and Migrant Housing .

During my PhD I spent research visiting periods in Paris at the Centre de recherche sur l’habitat (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine) (from January to April 2013) and at the École des hautes études en science sociales (from April to July 2013). From May to July 2015 I was invited visiting fellow at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po, Paris.

Research Interests
- Ethnicity and Migration: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Minorities (Roma); Migration Governance; Racism, Stigma and Discrimination; Social Inclusion.
- Collective Action: Civil Society Organisations and NGOs; Social Movements; Volunteering; Migrant Solidarity.
- Urban and Housing Segregation: Urban Marginality; Housing Exclusion; Racial Segregation; Camps and Informal Settlements; Squats; Forced Evictions; Housing Careers.

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.