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I am currently enrolled in the second year of the Doctoral Program in Psychology at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon. In 2019, I have obtained a Master of Science Degree in Psychology of Intercultural Relations at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon. I possess academic and professional experience in social psychology, intercultural relations, media, and socio-cultural communication. My research is focused on subtle discrimination, microaggressions, gender inequality, and intersectionality. I have also worked in the areas of migration and global education. In 2018 and in 2020, I have worked for the International Organization for Migration in Brussels, Belgium, and conducted a project aimed to promote and develop the application of culturally competent approaches in the context of IOM Migration Health Assessment Services, with fieldwork in a IOM Clinic in Turkey. In 2020, I obtained the Certificate of Pedagogical Competencies (CPP), issued by the Portuguese IEFP, which allows me to practice as a certified trainer in Portugal. Currently, my Ph.D. project aims to understand how subtle and blatant forms of discrimination affect the acculturation experiences of immigrant women in Portugal.

Aneta Piekut is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield and a research fellow at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. Her substantive work covers four research areas: (1) Complexities of attitudes and ethnic/racial prejudice in the UK and Poland; (2) International migration and its consequences for local communities and inter-ethnic relations; (3) Patterns and theories of spatial segregation; and (4) Measuring public opinion on immigration.

I am a social anthropologist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity of the University of Birmingham. My research interests are in the field of migration, mobilities, youth and minority studies. While using ethnography as the main approach to explore these topics, I am also an expert in the areas of policy analysis and evaluation, and have a growing interest in collaborative and audio-visual research methods. Since 2015 I am executive editor at WOTS magazine.

My research aims to support a strong social justice agenda that addresses social inequalities among traditionally marginalised group, in particular migrant communities. In my work, I have drawn upon theoretical and methodological insights from intersectionality, migration studies and community relations. My research concerns two general themes concerning active citizenship and citizenship rights in the context of ‘superdiversity’ with particular focus on rural areas and the theme of integration and migrants’ settlement practices from a multidisciplinary and policy- focused perspective.

I am assistant professor at Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw. At the same time I am PhD candidate at Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. In my research I try to combine civics, migration studies and critical theory (gender and postcolonial) on mezo- and microlevel. Especially I am interested in minorities - majority groups relations on the individual level (biographical research on refugee woman in Poland), institutional level (coNcultural practices among Ukrainian students in Poland) and civic attitudes among migrants in Poland.

Supriya PILLI is a Ph.D. candidate in Quantitative Methods for Economic Policy Evaluation based at the Universitá Degli Studi di Macerata (Italy). She graduated with a master’s degree in finance specifically focused on statistics and econometric techniques from the Universitá di Siena (Italy). Her doctoral research focuses on the Labour market effects of refugee migration in the host country, financed by the Ministry of Italy.

Postdoc @ Brown MES |
| PhD '22 @ Rutgers Anthropology |
| MA '16 @ Koc History and Society

Janine Pinkow-Läpple is a doctoral researcher at IAMO and HU Berlin. Prior to that she obtained a Master in Peace Research and International Politics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Her areas of expertise and professional interest include return migration, social remittances and female migration. The geographical focus of her research is Southeast Europe. She currently writes her PhD thesis on social remittances (Working title: "From Social to Intangible Remittances: A Conceptual Recalibration with Empirical Evidence from Southeast Europe").

I'm a doctoral student at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Using a mixed methods approach, my research examines the needs, experiences and outcomes of children in relation to the financial support provided to families under Asylum Support - a parallel system of state support for asylum-seekers in the UK. My research is funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

My wider research focus is on poverty and inequality within the immigration and asylum context, and so far I have focused on policies which restrict access to mainstream social security benefits for children in migrant families referred to as 'no recourse to public funds' / NRPF policies.

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked at The Children's Society leading the organisation's policy, influencing and research work on poverty and inequality, with expertise in asylum, immigration and trafficking policy. During this time, I managed a number of research projects including on poverty among children and young people subject to immigration control; legal aid for separated children's immigration matters; and the impact of family debt on children's mental health and well-being.