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Migration Expert with an extensive practitioner and researcher experience spanning over ten years in academia, national and international civil society, government administration and intergovernmental organizations, specialized in migration & asylum policy and research, governance, international development and international relations.

I hold a BA in Applied Languages and a MA in International Development and Intercultural Studies from the University of Lille III, France. I have been awarded an Irish Research Council scholarship to conduct doctoral research in the areas of labour market precarity and economic integration of migrants, which I will be completing in 2019. Other research interests include: gendered processes of migration, intergenerational mobility, international student migration, access to healthcare for vulnerable migrants, undocumented youth in education and access to redress for victims of labour exploitation.

Prior to my current role, I worked in the Irish Diplomatic Service as Assistant Director in the Latin American Unit and before that I held the policy and research portfolio of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) between 2014 and 2018 after having served for more than 5 years as the Strategic Advocacy Officer with emphasis on Irregular Migration and Trafficking for Forced Labour. I have also undertaken research and casework for former unaccompanied minors with the Dutch Refugee Council and worked on research projects on Language and Cultural Issues of Ethnic Minorities in Europe for the European Centre for Minority Issues.

I was elected as civil society representative in the Bureau of the European Migration Forum at the European Economic and Social Committee for the period of 2017 to 2018, as Chair of the expert group on Labour Rights for Undocumented Migrants in the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants from 2014 to 2018, and member of the 4th Advisory Panel to the Director of the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency from 2014 to 2017.

Emanuela Roman is senior researcher at FIERI. She completed her PhD in Human Rights at the University of Palermo, Law Department (2017). She holds an MA in Human Rights from the University of Padova, Faculty of Political Sciences and an LLM from the International University College of Turin. Her main research interests include migration governance in the Mediterranean area, the externalisation and informalisation of EU migration, asylum and border management policies and their impact on migrant rights, the EU return and readmission policy, immigration detention, and the reception and integration of asylum seekers and protection beneficiaries in Italy. Emanuela is also a students’ supervisor at the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic of Turin.

Dr. Monica Roman holds a position of Full Professor at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics of the Bucharest University of Economics. Since 2011 she is affiliated as research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn and at the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) in Bratislava.
Her research interests are related to the economics of international migration, labor and demographic economics, regional studies and transition economies, public policy evaluation. She has more than 15 years of experience as evaluator and consultant for national and international authorities, such as Romanian government, European Commission and World Bank. The activities carried out also included training sessions, coaching, co-authoring textbooks related to evaluation issues. She was involved in Ex-ante Evaluation of Operational Programs 2014-2020, impact assessments of the Operational Programs 2007-2017 and 2014-2020, impact assessments of active labor market measures, development of Cost Benefit Analysis, evaluation of the ITI- Danube Delta. The list of beneficiaries of these projects includes the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Protection, the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration, the Ministry of European Funds, the Ministry of Justice, the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova, the National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia, the European Commission.
She has high expertise in applied statistics and micro-econometrics, more specifically in using methods related to parametric modelling (linear and nonlinear regression methods) and nonparametric methods, factor analysis, structural equation modelling.
Prof. Roman has coordinated as principal investigator five research grants on migration and labor issues and currently she is a team leader in the project “EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions - MIMY” (2020-2023). She has published two books on Romanian migration and more than 30 articles in peer reviewed journals such Journal of Comparative Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Transnational Social Review, Migration Letters, Evaluation and Program Planning.

Veronica Romano is a Ph.D. Candidate in «Human Rights: Evolution, Protection and Limits» at the
University of Palermo, in partnership with the École Doctorale Droit et Science Politique of the
University of Paris Nanterre – Centre de droit pénal et de criminologie.
Her research project deals with securitarian rhetoric and the way it is exploited by populist actors in order to build up and justify exclusionary policies and a proper “criminal law of fear” directed against migrants. The aim of her doctoral thesis is to rethink the concept of security, showing how these policies and laws produce exactly the opposite effect to the one declared by populist actors: dehumanization, marginality, social exclusion, thus more risk of deviance and insecurity for all.
Since 2020 she has been publishing several case notes to international and national judgments in «Il
Foro italiano» journal: the most recent is the note to the Special Assize Court of Paris’ judgment on
the November 2015 terrorist attacks.
On the 17th of March 2022 she presented her Ph.D. thesis at the French National Library “François
Mitterrand” as one of the ten finalists of the University Paris Nanterre for the French MT180
competition organised by the CNRS (Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique).
On July 2021 she was also selected for the presentation of her Ph.D. thesis during the Summer
School on Migration Policy and Asylum in the EU at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
On October 2021 she discussed at the University of Messina a paper entitled «From the indesirable
migrants to their rescuers: old and new public enemies in the policy of closed ports» (forthcoming
publication in the Messina University Press).
Finally, she has just been selected for the participation in the IMISCOE Ph.D. School "Critical Reflections on Migration Studies, Racism and Discrimination" which will be held in Bruselles next month, as well as for the participation, as a speaker, to the Workshop "Comparing everyday bordering in migrants’ access to social services: scope, practices and resistance" which will be held in Paris in June 2023.

Taras Romashchenko is a Ukrainian scholar with research interests in international economics, international labour migration and diaspora, FDI and remittances. PhD in Economics and Associate Professor at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy. He is also a senior lecturer in international economic relations and migration, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University (Germany) and has been a visiting research fellow at Danube University Krems (Austria).

Francesca Rondine graduated cum laude in 2015 in International Studies (LM-52) at the University of Naples "l'Orientale", with a thesis in International protection of migrants on Female Genital Mutilation as a form of persecution.
She obtained an LL.M. (Master of Law) in 2017 in International Migration and Refugee Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a thesis on the administrative detention of migrants in Italian hotspot structures. The thesis has been nominated for the "Hanneke Steenberg" price, a yearly price for the best thesis on migration law written in the Netherlands.
In 2017 she obtained a research fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). In 2018 she taught a legal and social sciences research methodology course at the UvA at the PPLE course (Politics, psychology, law and economics).
From July 2018 to July 2019 she worked as a case-worker at the Italian Dublin Unit, civil liberties and immigration department of the Italian Ministry of the Interior. She started working at the Dublin Unit again in 2021. From 2019, she is a PhD candidate in international order and human rights at the University la Sapienza of Rome. Her PhD thesis deals with airport transit zones, namely on their role in migration management, focussing on the issues of migrants’ entry on national territory, detention, expulsion and asylum. The thesis takes into account international law, European law and the Italian context.
Her main areas of interest are, inter alia, right to asylum, migrants’ detention and right to personal liberty and border management.

Sanam Roohi is a Marie Curie COFUND fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, currently researching the transnationalisation of the Telangana movement. She defended her thesis ‘Giving Back: Diaspora Philanthropy and the Transnationalisation of Caste in Guntur (India)’ from the University of Amsterdam in December 2016. Her research outputs include publication of a few book chapters and articles in journals including Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, International Political Sociology and Ethnic and Migration Studies, apart from a co-produced film on diaspora philanthropy. She worked as an assistant professor at St. Joseph’s (Autonomous), Bangalore, between September 2016 and April 2018. Roohi was a 2018 SSRC InterAsia Fellow at the Global and Transregional Studies Platform, Georg-August University, Göttingen. She has also been awarded a Humboldt fellowship which starts in September 2020 at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.

Dr. Mariana Rosca has been enrolled in the Ph.D. program on Human Rights: Ethical, Social, and Political Challenges funded by Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme, where she focusses on social integration of religious minorities. Born in Moldova, living in different countries within and outside Europe, much of Mariana’s personal interests, academic passion and intellectual curiosity have revolved around diaspora communities, migration, religious minorities and social integration. She holds a BA in Economy and Sociology from Academy of Economic Studies, Republic of Moldova, a MA in Global Development and Social Justice from St. John´s University, New York and a second Master in Advanced European and International Studies from European Institute, France.