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Pieter Bevelander is professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global political studies and Director of MIM, Malmö Institute of Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Sweden. His main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions and attitudes of natives towards immigrants and minorities. He has a PhD in economic-history and wrote his thesis (2000) on the employment integration of immigrants in Sweden in the period 1970–1995. A number of his publications include the labour market situation of immigrants in a regional setting and the effects of labour market policy measures directed towards immigrants and refugees in Sweden. Moreover, his research contains the socioeconomic and political impacts of citizenship ascension of immigrants and minorities in host societies and the attitudes of the native population on immigrants and other minority groups. His latest research include voting behavior of immigrants and their children as well as the socio-economic impact of the large refugee intake in Sweden during the last decades.
He has co-edited a number of publications of which the latest are Museums in Times of Migration and Mobility: Rethinking Museums Perspectives, Collections, Collaborations and Representations (2017) with Christina Johansson, and with Ruth Wodak, Europe at the Crossroads, Confronting Populist, Nationalist, and Global Challenges (2019). Moreover, he has reviewed for and published widely in international journals and is currently Associated Editor of International Migration Review (IMR) and Comparative Migration Studies as well as in the editorial board of Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Studies. He is a member of the Swedish government commission on Migration DELMI (http://www.delmi.se/en), a member of the Executive Board of the IMISCOE network, a board member of the Metropolis network and Head of the international advisory Board of the Swiss NCCR “On the Move”. He has produced reports on migration and integration for several international organizations like the FRA, OECD, IOM, EU and MPI.

Barbara Beznec graduated in Political Science of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, where she later earned her Ph.D. on the subject of European Citizenship. As a researcher and expert in migration, she has collaborated with various institutes and universities in Slovenia and abroad. Fields of work: European integrations, European border regime, Balkan migration route, migration policies and practices, inclusiveness, autonomy of migration.

My work focuses on the relationship between human rights and international refugee law in status determinations:
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Dr Sonu Bhaskar, MD PhD PD (Stroke/Neurology) FANA, is an award-winning clinician-scientist, board director and academic neurologist with a specialisation in vascular neurology & neuroradiology; and a researcher with a strong focus on global health, translational neuroscience/neurology, and health systems/policy, with a proven track record in governance, policymaking, social innovation, and systems-level growth & strategy. Dr Bhaskar has several years of leadership and governance experience, in initiating and delivering systems change, in senior leadership and executive roles at academic, healthcare and research organisations, and not-for-profit boards and international consortia. Dr Bhaskar is the Founding Director of NSW Brain Clot Bank – a flagship world’s first initiative in stroke; Founding Director of Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Global (an international consortium formed to champion the safety of healthcare workers, policy development and advocacy for global pandemic preparedness and action with a focus on advocacy and building capacity, for vulnerable populations, and/or in under-resourced settings), Director at the Rotary Club of Sydney, International Director at International Fellowship of Rotarian Doctors (RFID, UK) and Editorial Board Member of BMC Neurology. Dr Bhaskar leads an international, intersectoral and collaborative research program aimed at reducing health inequalities and social disparities. Having worked at the coal face of medicine, academia and community, his focus and interests have increasingly galvanised towards social and geographical inequalities in health. Dr Bhaskar is passionate about advocacy and leadership for social impact and innovation, rooted in diversity, community, innovation and belonging.

Dr Bhaskar has been recognised in Australia and worldwide for his exceptional contributions to the vocation of neurology, research, global humanitarian initiatives, and public service, and the wider community, and for promoting the highest standards within the profession of medicine. According to Expertscape, Dr Bhaskar is ranked among the world’s top 0.4%, 0.36%, 0.5% and 0.78% of researchers/experts in the fields of Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Central Nervous System Diseases and Cardiovascular Diseases, respectively. Dr Bhaskar has been featured on Sydney Morning Herald, 9 News, Reuters Health/Medscape, Rotary Down Under and ABC News-MSN. He is the two-time winner of the prestigious 2019 European Academy of Neurology Investigator Award, 2021 Paul Harris Fellow recognition by Rotary International and 2020 Rotary Vocational Excellence Award.

Urbee's research interests lie at the intersection of social anthropology, urban studies, migration studies. She has worked on migrant women's sociality earlier and is currently exploring the everyday worlds of paid domestic workers in Kolkata, through phenomenological and existential lenses. Through her work, she aims to contribute to conversations around women's everyday lives in the postcolonial Global South.

AGNIESZKA BIELEWSKA received her PhD in Sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom in 2010 and since then works at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland. Her primary academic interests include the challenges met by modern societies such as international migration, ageing and climate change. She was member of Warsaw research team in the international project RESTATE “Restructuring Large – scale Housing Estates in European Cities: Good Practices and New Visions for Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Cities” within the 5th Framework Programme EU. She published with Peter Lang, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and Ethnicities, International Migration.