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Anna Korteweg is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on the ways in which the perceived problems of immigrant integration are constructed in the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity and national origin. From this critical vantage point, she has published extensively on debates surrounding the wearing of the headscarf, so-called “honour-based” violence, and Sharia law. Her current projects look at the return of women who joined IS to their European home countries, the construction of LGBTQ/gender rights in refugee politics, and the citizenship implications of refugee sponsorship in Canada. Her research has been funded by multiple national and international grants.

Dr. Oksana Koshulko is a Ukrainian scientist. She has an M.A. degree in Economy and Society from Lancaster University and a PhD in Economic Sciences. Her areas of research are Gender and Migration Studies, including Refugeeism. Dr Koshulko has published over 150 scientific papers, books, and chapters of books in various countries as the results of her international projects, carried out in different international universities

Leah Koskimaki is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Social Development (ISD) and Coordinator for an interdisciplinary project on Migration and Mobilities in the Office of the DVC- Academic at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has conducted extensive research in India on small town youth politics, regionalism, development and migrant transnationalism. Her current research project, “Tailoring Futures”, interrogates the precarity, aspirations and religious networks of contemporary South Asian migrants in Cape Town, South Africa.

PhD candidate at TU Dublin, Ireland, MSc in International Business and BSc in Business & Management. I'm working closely with people from different countries, which gave me a better understanding of how important integration with the host society is and how much migrants valued their connections with their home country. I wrote a thesis: "The meaning of working among employees from different countries". This master thesis enhanced my interest in first- and second-generation migrants' acculturation process and transnational connections. This interest created an avenue to explore how first and second generation of Polish migrants make sense of the experience of acculturation and transnationalism.

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I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Migration and Globalisation at Danube University, Krems, which I joined in September 2018. Previously, I worked as a senior researcher at ICMPD`s research department, and between 2011 and 2015, also led the research departmen. A political scientist and Africanist by training (MA from the University of Vienna, of which one year at SOAS, University of London, PhD from the University of Vienna), I also held fellowships at the SCMR, University of Sussex (2003-2004) and the Department of Political Sciences and the University of Vienna (2005-2006). M research has focused on migration statistics, irregular migration, regularisation, family migration policies, discrimination, border control, and more recently, international protection.