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I am a sociologist and I hold a Ph.D. degree in Political and Social Sciences from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium). I have several years of teaching and research experience, through which I developed expertise in migration studies (South-South migration, return migration, migration and development), particularly in South America, drawing on fieldwork experiences in Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil.

Dirk Jacobs (°1971) is full professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is affiliated to the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Institut de Sociologie. His main research topics are sociology of education and migration and integration policies.

He is the former director of GERME and currently director of EBxl, the research network for Brussels Studies at ULB.

Jacobs studied sociology at Ghent University and obtained his PhD in social sciences at Utrecht University in 1998. He is affiliated to ULB since 2004 and was appointed full professor in 2012. He has been an invited professor at Amsterdam University (UvA), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven et Vesalius College (VUB).

In 2011 he received an ERC Grant for the project “Equal opportunities for migrant youth in educational systems with high levels of social and ethnic segregation – assessing the impact of school team resources”.

He was one of the founding members of the G1000. He is a board member of asbl Pouvoir Organisateur Pluriel (les écoles plurielles) and of Foyer in Molenbeek.

Areej Jamal is a PhD researcher at the University College London, Social Research Institute. Her research focusses on South Asian migrants living in Saudi Arabia.

Professor of Geography at the University of Turku. Former director of research consortium URMI (Urbanization, Mobilities and Immigration, www.urmi.fi). Recently conducted research on asylum-related journeys, irregular migration and related processes in the EU, at the border of the EU and in the origin countries. Recent field studies among migrants include Lesvos (Greece), Lampedusa (Italy), Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany), Finland, Jordan, Turkey, Iran.

Experienced policy analyst with a demonstrated history of communicating immigration and economic issues to diverse audiences. Expertise in survey administration, data collection and management as well as performing advanced statistical analyses in Stata statistical software. Over 15 years of experience in grant and program management. Publications in Migration Policy Institute, Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Inter-American Dialogue, IFAD.

Luděk Jirka received Ph.D. att Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague (Integral Study of Man – General Anthropology). He spent study stays at Bielefeld University in Germany and at University of California Los Angeles. He is faculty member at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies in Hradec Králové and external lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles university in Prague.