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Associate Professor (with Agregação) in the Portuguese and Romance Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, since 1986. Phd in Comparative Literature ( 1998) , and tenure in Romance Literatures and Cultures ( On Transitive Literature and Nomadic Subjects, 2010]. In recent years, her research has been dedicated mainly to questions of interculturality and to literary and other representations of migration and exile .

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a joint PhD in sociology and demography. Before arriving at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin in 2016, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, a lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

I am an unapologetic, serial collaborator who is dedicated to interdisciplinary perspectives. Reflective of my rejection of any bright lines between disciplines in social science is a pursuit of peer-reviewed publication in sociology, demography, political science, criminology, public health, history and urban studies.

Martina Crescenti is a Ph.D student in Human Sciences, curriculum in Psycology, Communication and Social Sciences (Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata). Major interests in Sociology of Religion, Family and Intimate lives, Education. Bachelor's degree in Intercultural Studies (curriculum: turkish studies) (University of Florence). Master's degree in Languages and Cultures of Ancient and Modern Civilizations (curriculum: turkish studies) (University of Florence). 1year Master's degree in Sociology (University of La Sapienza Roma).

Dr Veronica Crosbie is an Assistant Professor in Migration and Intercultural Studies in SALIS, Dublin City University, Ireland. Other roles and responsibilities include Chair of the University of Sanctuary Ireland (UoSI) network. She was instrumental in establishing DCU as the first University of Sanctuary in Ireland in 2016, which entails creating a culture of welcome for asylum seekers and refugees, In 2017, she co-hosted the colloquium ‘Asylum Narratives’ and co-edited a special issue related to the theme for the journal Studies in Arts and Humanities, which was published in January 2019.

Maurice Crul is a distinguished professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is a specialist on school and labour market careers of children of immigrants and refugees in Europe and the United States. He has coordinated the TIES project which was the first European comparative study on the second generation in Europe. He has further coordinated two ERC Grant projects. The first looked at the upcoming elite among the second generation (ELITESproject.eu) and the second, an ERC advanced grant project, BAM looks at the new minority in superdiverse cities: the people of native descent (BAMproject.eu). He has written extensively about issues of diversity and inclusion. Some of his books include: The New Face of World Cities (Russell Sage Foundation Publishers), Coming to Terms with Superdiversity. The Case of Rotterdam (Springer), Superdiversity. A New Vision on Integration (Free University Press).

Karolina Czerska-Shaw holds a PhD in Sociology and is assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests include migration and integration policies and practices at EU and national levels, local migration governance, as well as issues of belonging in transnational social spaces and international student mobility. She is a researcher in several international projects, including a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action project entitled: EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy, where she studies the development and contestation of EU migration and asylum policies, particularly from the point of view of civil society actors. She is also a work package leader in the PeaceRep project in collaboration with the London School of Economics, focusing on the networks and activities of civil society organisations involved in the mobilisation of humanitarian aid in Poland and peace process in Ukraine. She collaborates with the Multiculturalism and Migration Observatory of the Krakow University of Economics, and is a member of the Jagiellonian Centre for Migration Studies. She is currently involved in building an integration strategy for the Lesser Poland district as well as the city of Krakow.

Senior researcher at CNRS and professor at the Paris School of Economics