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Cecilia Vergnano obtained her Ph.D. in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona in December 2015 with a thesis on housing access of transnational European migrants, ethnically labelled as Roma, in the city of Turin (Italy). She is currently affiliated to GRECS (Group
of Research into Social Exclusion and Control) at the University of Barcelona. Her
research interests are territorial stigmatization, forced (im)mobilities, housing policies and
processes of racialization.

Pinelopi Vergou is a political scientist (Panteion University, Greece). She holds an MA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Athens. Her doctoral studies is in human geography from the University of Thessaly - Department of Planning and Regional Development (April 2016). She has been working as a director in the Department of immigration services in the Prefecture of Athens, Greece and she has been collaborated with UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Athens-Greece in a Training Course on the diffusion of the Refugee Low (2001). She is currently working as a Laboratory Teaching Staff in the Department of Economics in the University of Thessaly. Over the last years she has participated in many EU and Greek funded research projects related to immigration and social integration. She is frequently collaborating with the National Centre of Social Research in Greece. Her research interests are focused on social and spatial segregation, immigration policy, social reproduction, gender and diversity.

I am the coordinator of CESSMIR (Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees). CESSMIR is an interdisciplinary centre within Ghent University dedicated to the social study of migration and refugees. Three key elements are central to the work of CESSMIR: interdisciplinarity, societal impact and participation (as a research topic, in research methods and as a way of enhancing societal impact).
I have a master in Special Needs Education and a PhD in pedagogical sciences. My PhD research was about integration an belonging in a multi- and intergenerational perspective, and also critically examined the concept of integration. After that, I coordinated the research project 'Childmove', that focused on the impact of flight experiences on the psychosocial wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors.
My research interests include psychosocial wellbeing, integration, unaccompanied refugee minors and families on the move. Furthermore, I am interested in and working on societal impact and participation.

Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe is since October 2016 associated professor (docent) at the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium).

Student of International Relations at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Developed the scientific initiation entitled “The relationship between the universality of the SUS and high-risk Venezuelans’ pregnancy”, published in the journal Lugar Comum. During this research, I analyzed the motivations that lead Venezuelan high-risk pregnant leave their country and come to Brazil, something that includes the use of the existing public health system (SUS) in this country. I was able to collect data showing the number of pregnant women who migrated to Brazil, to the state of Roraima, between 2016 and 2019, in addition to observing which public maternity hospitals they went to have the proper prenatal care and also the birth of their children. I was able to analyze the consequences of not guaranteeing a quality public health system in Venezuela, which caused malnutrition to women, lack of basic supplies in hospitals and, also, lack of prenatal care. Thus, when they arrived in Brazil, most of them presented greater health risks - demanding even more from the Brazilian public health system, which, in 2016, collapsed in the state of Roraima.

I am a psychologist and PhD candidate interested in intergroup relations, attitudes towards immigrants, nationalism, xenophobia and social emotions. My PhD is financed by the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research for Migration and Mobility Studies and is supervized by Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor (University of Geneva) and Eva Green (University of Lausanne). Previously, I worked with David Sander and Olga Klimecki (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva) on conflicts over immigration and on compassion.

Trinidad L. Vicente. PhD in Political Science and Sociology. Associate professsor. University of Deusto .

Phd student in Human Geography and Sociology of work at UPHF and Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Fields of work : Privileged migrations, labour migration, ethnicity and racialisation processes, qualitative research methods