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Prof. Dr. Izabela Grabowska is Full Professor of Social Sciences; sociologist and economist; from the 1st of September 2021 a Professor at Kozminski University, leads CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility; 2014-2021 a Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (SWPS University; worked there since 2005); 2016-2021 elected Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School (300 PhD students, 4 disciplines, 4 doctoral paths) of SWPS University; leader of Mobility Research Group with an onward activity; established and headed Youth Research Center of SWPS University (2015-2019); 2002-2019 Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research; since 2020 member of Scientific Board of Center of Migration Research at university of Warsaw; 2008-2019 member of IMISCOE Executive Board and Board of Directors; on behalf of CMR; former national expert of the European Commission in ESCO (Classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) and European Mobility Partnership; publishes in highly impact factor journals, e.g.: Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, International Migration; co-author of the research monograph Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital: Insights from Central Europe and Mexico (with Jastrzebowska, Routledge 2022); author of Movers and Stayers: Migration, Mobility and Skills (Lang 2016), co-author of research monograph: The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change (with White, Kaczmarczyk and Slany, UCL Press 2018) and Migrants as Agents of Change (with Garapich, Jazwinska and Radziwinowiczowna, Palgrave Macmillan 2017); co-editor of Mobility in Transition. Migration Patterns After EU Enlargement (Amsterdam University Press 2013). She has led research projects on: migrants’ careers, social remittances, peer-groups & migration, life courses of young migrants & Brexit (in progress till 2021), migrant liquid integration (H2020 MIMY, in progress). She is active in building international research consortia in EU Framework Programs and bilateral schemes

Daniel Granada est Docteur en Ethnologie de l’Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense et PhD en Histoire de l’University of Essex. Diplômé en Sciences Sociales et Mestre en Sociologie et Anthropologie de l’Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/PPGAS), master recherche en Étude des Sociétés Latino Américaines par l'IHEAL (Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. Est professeur adjoint à l'Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brésil) où il dispense des cours en anthropologie, sociologie, anthropologie et sociologie de la santé et de la maladie et débats contemporains.
Il étudie actuellement la relation entre la santé et la migration, les effets de Covid 19 sur les populations migrantes au Brésil et les impacts chez les professionnels de la santé.

Lauren Grant is Founding Director at the International School on Climate Migration and Director of Field Research at Earth Refuge, the planet's first legal think tank dedicated to climate migrants. She is also a Research Associate at the Global Centre for Climate Mobility. Her background is in gender, critical race and ethnic studies and human rights law, with a focus on the socio-economic rights of Indigenous communities, coloniality, genocide and (gender-based) violence. Lauren's current research explores violence, conflict, (under)development and climate change as multi-causal drivers of forced displacement in East and the Horn of Africa, South Asia and Latin America, as well as their consequences for livelihoods, development, socio-economic rights, justice and sustainable peace. Her current projects examine the legal gaps in protection for cross-border and internally-displaced climate migrants, and the taxonomies, temporalities and drivers of displacement as they affect agriculturally-dependent communities, families and individuals. Her research also investigate the value of sustainable agricultural development as a mitigation and adaptation strategy with capacity to slow, halt or deter displacement related to slow and rapid on-set climate change impacts.

Snježana Gregurović is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb since 2000. She graduated sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Zagreb University where she earned her Master's Degree in the field of the sociology of ethnicity and her PhD in the field of the sociology of the international migrations. She has participated in several research projects and published more than 30 scientific and professional papers and expertise. She is the main author of the IMIN's position paper on Integration of Migrant in the European Union with Reference to Croatia. Her research interests pertain to the fields of international migration, migrant integration, migration policies, multiculturalism and sociology of ethnic relations.

M.A. Philology 1988 CAU Kiel, Germany

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Governance and Administration, ETH Zurich, 2020

My research interests are mainly within the anthropology of migration, with a special focus on refugees and diasporic practices. I am also interested in social memory, gender and home in relation to violent political conflict and flight. My most recent research focuses on the encounters between newly arrived Palestinian refugees and staff at the Swedish Public Employment Service. I am in particularly interested in how the refugees’ experiences of violence are dealt with in those meetings and in the moral issues and bureaucratic strategies that emerge.

I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Gothenburg. My doctoral thesis from 2009 builds on a one-year ethnographic fieldwork in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. In short, the thesis dealt with the many ways that the camp inhabitants tried to maintain continuity, morality and a normal order despite repeated emergencies during the second intifada. I have also done research about Danes and Swedes with a Palestinian background and their diasporic practices, while being a post doc at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. In addition, I have carried out fieldwork in UN-run schools for Palestinian refugee children, focusing on processes of gendered identity formations. I have also worked as a researcher and teacher at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.

I am an Associate Professor at the American University of Armenia. I have a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin and Master in Economics from the Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna). My research covers a wide range of development topics, such as migration, poverty, micro-finance, gender and international trade. I have publications in International Migration, Empirical Economics, Eastern European Economics, International Economic Journal, Journal of Income Distribution, among other journals. The nexus of migration and remittances is in my research and consultancy agenda since 2010. As a EERC fellow, I have developed theoretical and empirical models on family reunification with migration decisions and public policies embedded. The interaction between (multidimensional) poverty and out-migration is another major topic of my specialization. My rich consultancy expertise brings several multidisciplinary topics connected to migration, from international trade and conflict studies to micro-finance and poverty / inequality.