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Her main research interests are interdisciplinary and lie at the intersection of tourism, migration and mobility: medical tourism/travel, diasporic/diaspora tourism, VFR tourism, migration-led tourism, transnationalism, and everydayness in tourism.

Astrid Mattes works as a postdoctoral migration researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and lectures at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck.

I am a research fellow in Sociology with special research interests in social inequality in the fields of education and labor and the construction of differentiating categories in relation to racism . I am part of the research group 'National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning' at the WZB Berlin.

Sarah Mazouz completed a PhD in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales (2010) and is tenured researcher at the CNRS. Her main research topics are antidiscrimination in France and in other European countries, French public youth employment centres and citizenship politics in France and Germany. Drawing on ethnography, her work leans on Critical race Theory, sociology of law, sociology of public policies and critical anthropology of moral.

Following an approach attentive to institutions, the organization of work, individual trajectories and the relationship between institutions and subjects, her current research focuses on the current debates within the world of dance on transmission and pedagogy, the repertoire, and the implementation of diversity policies.

Nives Mazur-Kumrić is an Associate Professor of International Law, who has chaired various subjects in the domain of International and European Law at the University of Osijek, Croatia since 2000. She holds a PhD degree in International Law (University of Osijek, Croatia) and a Marie Curie postdoc degree in International/Nationality Law (University of Liège, Belgium). Her research interests lie in the area of human rights law, minority rights, citizenship, ethnicity, migrations, state succession, EU law, environmental law, etc. She is the author of the first university textbook on minority rights in Croatian – “European System of Minority Rights Protection” (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2017). Her studies in International and European Law include EUI, Florence; CEU, Budapest; Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway; Academy of International Law, The Hague; Department of Law, Politics and International Studies, Parma; and many others.

Currently, she holds the position of Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Representation of Croatia to the EU in Brussels, with most of her work focused on the even social, economic and territorial development of the EU. She is also a scientific associate at two faculties of the University of Liège, Belgium - the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Criminology, and the Faculty of Social Sciences. As a legal expert, she regularly takes part in legal studies and assessments of the European Commission in the area of human rights, migrations, citizenship and other topical issues of International/European Law.

Anna Mazurkiewicz, Associate Professor (dr habil., prof. UG), is a historian, a graduate of UG (1999, Ph.D. 2006), chair of the Department of Contemporary History at the Faculty of History. She currently leads the work of the International Border Studies Center at the UG – an interdisciplinary unit established to foster synergies within, and broaden international cooperation outside of the UG networks. She also serves as a Deputy Dean for Research and International Cooperation for the 2020-2024 term.

She has published four books: on the American responses to elections of 1947 and 1989 in Poland, and on the role of the political exiles from East Central Europe in American Cold War politics. Her book: Uchodźcy z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w amerykańskiej polityce zimnowojennej, 1948-1954 (Warszawa-Gdańsk, IPN-Uniwersytet Gdański, 2016) won the Willi Paul Adams Award, for the best book on American history published in a language other than English, Organization of American Historians, April 2019. She is also the editor of four volumes resulting from international cooperation/projects, including three in English (published in Germany and UK).

Currently she serves as the editor of the book series: “Migrations in History. Past experience, global patterns, memory” DeGruyter (Germany) https://www.degruyter.com/serial/MIH-B/html and the Book Review Editor for Poland „Polish American Studies” (University of Illinois, USA): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/pas.html

Mazurkiewicz the past President of the Polish American Historical Association (2017-2018) and a Board member since 2015. She is also a member of the Inter-faculty Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) for the Study of the Polish Diaspora as well as Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Recipient of numerous research grants and awards by Polish and American institutions, Mazurkiewicz was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame, Central European University (Budapest), Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar at the University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Buffalo, Valdosta State University (Georgia, USA) and Fulbright Senior Award, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA.

She teaches contemporary history with a special focus on the Cold War, U.S. history and U.S.-Polish relations, U.S. foreign policy, as well as offers courses in migration and diaspora studies. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-2755