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Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil. and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

Leonie is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), UvA. Her doctoral research focuses on the making of Senegalese migrant smuggling governance in the context of externalized EU-ropean migration control. Prior to starting her PhD Leonie has worked as a project researcher on migration governance in West Africa at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Brussels/UNU-Cris. As part of this work she conducted research in Ghana, Niger, and Senegal. She has also worked as Communication Officer at the European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). Leonie holds a MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen.

Marie lectures at the Department of Public and Social Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Despite extensive international cooperation, she focuses mainly on the situation of migrants in the Czech Republic, focusing on topics such as migrants' access to health care, the situation of undocumented migrants or senior female migrants. In recent years, she has dealt with the topic of local integration of migrants, especially in terms of multilevel governance and implementation of these policies. She also works closely with civil society and seeks data on topics that can contribute to data-based integration policies.

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.

Tēnā koutou, my name is Pengbo Jiang. I have extensive experience in providing immigration advice and in the management of large scale migration & mobility programs. I am also an active contributor and presenter at a range of HR, mobility and related conferences.