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My experience in psychosocial intervention and research is characterized by interpersonal, organizational and environmental sensitivity, as part of actions aimed at the care, support and strengthening of individuals and groups, who form communities of life in constant change and renewal. My interests focus on phenomena such as globalization, gender, migration, the family, social movements, the environment and local resilience.

Laura Morales is Professor in Political Science/Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, affiliated with CEE. She previously worked at the University of Leicester, the University of Manchester, the University of Murcia, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has held visiting scholar positions at the Amsterdam School for Social Research, Columbia University, Harvard University and Sciences Po Grenoble. Her research interests lie, especially, in the areas of comparative political behavior, public opinion, political parties, the politics of immigration, and comparative politics. She has published Joining Political Organisations. Institutions, Mobilisation and Participation in Western Democracies, Colchester: ECPR Press, 2009; Political Discussion in Modern Democracies in a Comparative Perspective (edited with Michael Wolf and Ken’ichi Ikeda), London: Routledge, 2010; and Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? (edited with Marco Giugni), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011; as well as a number of articles in academic international journals. She is also the Chair of the COST Action "International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network", which gathers a network of researchers from 33 countries working on improving the access, usability, dissemination and standards of the multiple and scattered survey data that exist on the economic, social and political integration of ethnic and migrant minorities. Other recent projects she has worked on include: the project LOCALMULTIDEM (funded by the 6th Framework Programme, on migrants' social capital and participation in Europe; the project Support and Opposition to Migration (funded by the 7th Framework Programme) on the politicization of migration across Europe; the Immigrant Citizens Survey (funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals and the King Baudouin Foundtion); and the project Pathways (funded by Open Research Area grant of the British ESRC, the Dutch NWO, the French ANR and the German DFG).

Daniel Morales holds a PhD (sociolinguistics and migration studies) and an MA in Transnational Studies by the University of Southampton, UK. He also holds a BA in English Linguistics, Translation and Literary studies by Universidad Autónoma de Queretaro, Mexico. He has been a Fulbright scholar in the United States and is a co-opted member of the International Association of Spanish in Society, an academic network that explores issues around language, globalization and migration, language policy, minority language rights, etc.
He has done research on Latin American migration to the UK where he has explored issues of language and identity and intra-group relations in the Latin American community in London. His research interests include language in society, language ideologies, language, globalization and migration. His work also incorporates different approaches of discourse studies, narrative studies as well as ethnographic methods to shed light on social inequality and exclusion from a sociolinguistic perspective.
He is also a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers by the National Council of Science and Technology.

Fellowship postdoctoral at Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) in the University of Osnabruck, Germany. PhD at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. Thesis “Crisis humanitaria de las migraciones centroamericanas en tránsito por México. Migración forzada y geopolítica del capital” (Humanitarian crisis of Central American migrations in transit through Mexico. Forced migration and geopolitics of capital). Previously a master's degree in international migration at the University of Coruña, Spain and master´s degree in Desarrollo Local y Territorio at Universidad de Guadalajara, México. Large experience in fieldwork volunteering in migrant shelters, as a methodological strategy, throughout Mexico, focusing lately on cross-border and ethnic studies."

Melissa Moralli is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, where she teaches Creative Methods and Social Innovation. She holds a Phd in Sociology and Social Research on social innovations and cultural processes. She was visiting scholar at CRISES (Centre de Recherche sur les Innovations Sociales, Montréal), IPK (Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University), CRISES Redifined (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), MESOPOLHIS (Aix-Marseille University, Sciences Po Aix, CNRS), MUCEM (Museum of the Mediterranean, Marseille). She is PI of the international project “Collaborative imaginaries on territories in change across Europe”. She was senior researcher in the project "Welcoming Spaces. Revitalising Shrinking Areas by Hosting Non-Eu Migrants” (H2020) and “Atlas of Transitions. New Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe” (CreativeEU). She is author of many books and articles on migration, artistic production, social innovation, creative methods. She co-founded the research collective "Reimagining Mobilities" on critical approaches to different mobility regimes through creative practices.

Dr. Madalina Moraru is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Law Faculty of the Masaryk University, Brno where she has obtained a research grant for the project on Reforming European Administrative Governance in times of crisis: Common or disjunctive sector regulatory models (EUADMIN-GOV). She is also a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Centre for Judicial Cooperation (CJC), in Florence, Italy, where she is coordinating the legal training on asylum and migration, and on the interpretation and application of the EU Charter in various EU law fields. She is the editor of Distinguished Lecture Series Papers, of the European University Institute, Centre for Judicial Cooperation.
She obtained her Doctoral Degree in Law from the European University Institute with a thesis entitled Protecting (unrepresented) EU citizens in third countries: the intertwining roles of the EU and its Member States). She has a magna cum laude LL.M. in European Law from Durham University (2008), as well as from the EUI (2010), and a LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, Bucharest (2007). Her research interests include the law and policies of EU external relations, consular and diplomatic law, fundamental rights, judicial dialogue, asylum and migration, and EU citizenship law.
She has been regularly invited to speak as expert on EU law issues by EU Institutions and international and non-governmental organisations. She has been the advisor for a Member of the European Parliament. She is also the founder of the non-governmental organisation, European Centre for Legal Expertise, which is actively participating in policy analysis and drafting in the field of human rights. She has won several EU-funded grants on fundamental rights, EU policy implementation and legal training (ACTIONES, e-Nact) She has extensive expertise in coordinating European wide projects involving research and consultancy in the field of asylum and migration and fundamental rights.
She has published extensively on the topic of the EU citizenship rights, fundament

Dr Ricard Morén-Alegret (PhD, University of Warwick, UK, 1999-2000) is Tenured Associate Professor and Researcher at the UAB Geography Department & Associate Researcher at UAB-ICTA, Spain. Among others, he was awarded two Marie Curie Research Fellowships by the European Commission DG-XII (1996-1999), a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellowship by the Spanish Government Science and Technology Ministry (2001-2006), a GCM Research Fellowship by the United Nations University, UNU (2013)...

Sandra Morgenstern is a Postdoc at the University of Mannheim and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)