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I am a post-​doctoral researcher working on forced migration and integration. Since fall 2015, I have been contributing to the Displaced Persons in Austria Survey (DiPAS), one of the first European studies on the human capital of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Refugee Health and Integration Survey (ReHIS) on refugees’ health access and mental health. I am affiliated with the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID / ÖAW, WU) and teach at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication. Besides my academic work, I regularly publish in the Austrian weekly FALTER and serve on the board of the Schumpeter Society Vienna.

My most current research project, the Women’s Integration Survey (WIN): Inclusion, Participation and Enablement of Refugee Women in Austria (2019-​2021), explored gendered pathways of social, economic and cultural integration.

My research has focused on different migration phenomena, including highly skilled, intra-European migration, free movement policies, Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland, migration decision-making and the role of imagination and mental time travel in the migration process, as well as tourism and mobility. At the moment I study the situation of Nordic migrants living in London during the Brexit process. In addition, I am an expert in research finance and project planning.

Gizem KOLBAŞI MUYAN is working at the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities as an expert since 2011. She gave lectures on iimmigrant integration and diaspora studies at the Departments of International Relations and Sociology, METU as a guest lecturers between 2018-2020. She had her Ph.D. at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2017 with her thesis titled “Interactions between Family Reunification and Integration: Marriages of Second Generation Turkish Dutch from Turkey”. She received her bachelors in International Relations from METU and had her master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization at the University of Malta, Faculty of Law with the European Commission scholarship. Her main areas of interest are immigrant integration, family reunification, diaspora studies, transnationalism, citizenship, EU law, Turkey-EU Assocation Law, EU migration policy, governance of migration at the national and international level, human rights law, interdisciplinary researches and qualitative research methods.

Eleonore Komai is a PhD researcher in Political Science at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). Her research interests focus on immigration policy and politics in a comparative perspective, particularly on issues related to labor migration, skills, race and ethnicity, and integration.

Angeliki Konstantinidou is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liége for the ERC-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe” (MiTSoPro) . As part of her joint PhD studies, she is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of SciencesPo. Her research interests include: social protection, comparative politics, international migration, political participation, political representation, integration policies for immigrant-origin minorities, party competition

Hi, I am doing my PhD in Social Anthropology and my thesis focuses on uncertainty which is experienced by Syrian Refugees due to their status which is “under contemporary protection” and its affects on their decision illegal migration to the Europe to gain refugee rights.