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A Research Fellow at Monash University Malaysia.

Ilse van Liempt is Associate Professor in Urban Geography in the Human Geography Department and Research Leader of the UU wide strategic theme Migration and Societal Change. Previously she worked at the Institute for Ethnic and Migration Studies (IMES) in Amsterdam and at the Sussex Center for Migration Research (SCMR). Her PhD was published in 2007 as a book called Navigating Borders. Since then she has published widely on irregular migration, refugee migration, gender, public space, diversity and processes of in and exclusion more generally. Currently she works on a HERA project called 'The everyday experiences of young refugees and asylum seekers in public spaces', in which issues of refugee youth, public space and integration in Europe are explored in four cities: Amsterdam, Brussels, Newcastle and Leipzig. She is also involved in an Erasmus + project on precarious housing in Europe (PUSH). Ilse is Associate Editor at the Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG), board member of KWALON, a platform for qualitative researchers in the Netherlands where she is responsible for a monthly blog on qualitative research method related issues.

I am a Research Fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland, focusing on ethnicity and digital media. With a background in area and cultural studies, I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki in 2022. My PhD dissertation examined the meanings of Sweden-Finnishness in social media campaigns and activism. My current research project examines the use of digital platforms by Finnish expatriates/diaspora and their influence on identity, belonging, and nationhood.

Dr. Ragna Lillevik is a researcher at Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, based in Oslo, Norway. She works on the creation and implementation of public policy on immigration, integration and diversity. She did her PhD on the governance of Islam in Norway as part of the interdisciplinary project "Muslim Politics and Governance of Islam: Interactions of Structure and Culture in Multireligious Europe". Lillevik's experience includes tracing policy developments, evaluating how policies are implemented and work in practice, and doing empirical studies of the encounters between different groups of refugees, immigrants and minorities, and public services. She has extensive experience with qualitative fieldwork and methods such as case studies, document studies, observation, focus groups and qualitative interviews, as well as experience with online surveys. Dissemination to stakeholders and the general public is an integrated part of all her projects at Fafo.

Ioannis Limnios-Sekeris obtained his Ph.D. in 2023 from the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University, Greece. His Ph.D. research deals with the relationship between the specialised on migration international organisations, and the private sector between 1951 and 1980. In 2013 he completed his MA Thesis at the University of Crete, Greece on the topic of the post-war emigration of Greeks to Australia. At the same University, he completed his undergraduate studies in Contemporary History in 2010. Ioannis’ research interests focus on post-war migration; the history of international organisations; maritime history and transport history. His publications include articles on post-war Greek emigration to Australia; Australia’s post-war immigration policy; the role of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration(ICEM) in the management of post-war migration and the migrant sea and air traffic.

My research focus on the politics of undocumented childhoods from the perspectives of agency, rights and vulnerability. I am a critical scholar who try to evade state centric research but focus on the everyday experiences and struggles of migrants and activists in a repressive border regime. I try to contribute to progressive scholarship that investigates alternative politics to the current hegemonic system of control that characterizes current migration policies around the world.

Henrik is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University. He has mainly been into labor market issues, wage formation, education and political history aside from Migration studies. A theme in his research has been how economic and political change interact, applying an institutional and economic-historical approach to understand the socio-economic and political processes. This approach has been used in studies of agricultural policy, crisis management at the municipal level, how labor market regulations affect the economy and how policy learning takes place. Previously, Henrik has been at The Ratio Institute and as lecturer at Uppsala, Stockholm and Dalarna University.

My research at the Migration Studies Delegation is mainly into Return and reintegration. I am working on a study about the returnees’ own experiences of voluntary and involuntary return, their reintegration process in the country of origin and the support structures that are offered there (Afghanistan and Iraq). The first part of the project has resulted in the report “Those who cannot stay: How to implement return policies”. It points out that some of the difficulties that the authorities in Sweden face when dealing with return can be traced to the fact that the target group is not or cannot be expected to be motivated to return .