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Arkadiusz Wiśniowski is a Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester, UK. His interests are in integrating traditional and new forms of data to better measure populations, especially international migration. He also has general interest in statistical modelling and forecasting.

Verena Wisthaler is a senior researcher at EURAC Research, Italy. Previously she was a post-doc researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, within the SNSF project NCCR on the move – the migration-mobility nexus, and external lecturer at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Leicester (2016). During her PhD she was visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Corte (FR) and the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her research focusses on immigrant integration at the regional and local level. She has published in JEMS, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Politika etc. Her PhD has been awarded the 2017 ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize.

Nils Witte is Research Fellow at the Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany. He works for the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study. His research interests include migration & labour markets, ethnic boundaries, and research methods.

I am a research officer at the International Labour Organization (ILO). I work in a joint project with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) focusing on child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking. I obtained my PhD in Economics from University College Dublin in 2020, where I analysed the labour market outcomes of the asylum population and migrants. My main research interests are migration, labour, and development economics.

I have earned my PhD from the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong in 2015 With the doctoral thesis "The Management Strategies of Advocacy-oriented Social Service Nonprofit Organisations in Hong Kong". Prior to this, I have a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Singapore, and my bachelor degree is in Economics and Politics from the University of Durham. I have a broad research interest surrounding the topics of civil society, nonprofit management and policy study; also experienced in both quantitative and qualitative methods in political science.

Karen is a social worker and a Ph.D. student based in Vancouver. Her research interests include how culture, race, and immigration intersect with aging, and the lived experiences of older immigrants and refugees and their families.

Dr Rachel Woodlock is an academic and writer who researches and teaches about Islam and Muslims. She co-edited Fear of Muslims? International Perspectives on Islamophobia with Professor Douglas Pratt (Springer, 2016), an evidenced-based examination of Islamophobia in both 'old-world' Europe and the 'new-world' of America and Australia, and also Southeast Asia. She also co-wrote For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim Debate Religion (Pan MacMillan, 2013), discussing some of life's biggest questions.

She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Arabic & Islamic Studies) and a Master of Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, and her doctoral research undertaken at Monash University looked at the social integration of religious Muslims in Australia. Dr Woodlock has lectured widely and taught subjects on Islam and Muslims at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her interests include Islamic theology, philosophy, comparative fiqh, praxis in minority contexts, Muslim social inclusion, as well as sectarian and heterodox movements.