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Gianni D’Amato is Professor at the University of Neuchâtel, Director of the ‘NCCR – On the move’, and Head of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM). His main foci are addressing citizenship, mobility, populism, and the history of migration. Recent contributions in English include “Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus”, Migration Studies, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 631–649, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad023 (together with Marco Bitschnau), “Politicising immigration in times of crisis: empirical evidence from Switzerland”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1936471 (together with Marco Bitschnau, Leslie Ader and Didier Ruedin), and “The Battle over Rights in Switzerland. Populist Arguments against International Law”, in: Pieter Bevelander and Ruth Wodak (Eds.), Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist, and Global Challenges (259-280). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. (see: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2525-4608)

Fanny D'hondt her PhD focused on how the experience of ethnic discrimination is related to the achievement and school wellbeing of pupils with a migration background in Flanders, Belgium. In this context, she realized a large-scale survey in secondary schools in Flanders. Since 2019, Fanny is coordinator of EdisTools. An research project focused on understanding and addressing ethnic discrimination in education, healthcare, the housing market and the labor market. Her current research is situated in the fields of ethnic relations, ethnic discrimination and sociology of education.

Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies, director of the MAPS (Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux) and project leader in the nccr-on the move, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is interested in understanding processes of mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion or gender. She is the co-director of the Standing Committee of “Reflexivities in migration studies” of IMISCOE https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/927-reflexive-migr….

Izabela A. Dahl is associate professor in history at Örebro University. Her research concerns different aspects of history of migration and integration, processes of belonging and exclusion, exile and refuge. Witnessing the past can be described as the fruitful friction in her theoretical approach where the interest is put to the place of individual experience and oral history as a source of historical knowledge within the process of knowledge production within the field of historical studies. Her empirical studies often address different aspects of Jewish migration in Europe during the 19th Century. Here, gender perspective contributes to find fruitful research questions regarding identity shifts in the national and religious frames of peoples lives.

Shannon Damery earned her PhD in December 2020 and has been a researcher in the CEDEM since 2013. Her manuscript is entitled, “At home 'outside': Young migrants aligning their 'home orbits' in the city of Brussels". She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on two international projects: The Horizion 2020 Project CHILD UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation) and UNIC (Unexpected Inclusions: Migration, Mobility and the Open City) led by the University of Geneva (IRS) and the University of Liège (CEDEM-IRSS) as part of the Lead Agency programme (SNF-FNSR). Her doctorate was part of the INTEGRIM ITN in which she was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the framework of the 7FP Training Network “Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies.” Her research focuses on how young migrants’ official migratory status impacts their daily lives. She has experience in social work and earned her M.A. in Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. This degree was part of the European partnership program: CREOLE: Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes. She studied at the University of Vienna and conducted research at two sites: a refugee integration facility and the Vienna Youth and Family Offices. Her research interests include refugee issues, forced migration, home and homemaking, youth and childhood studies, arts and integration, and activism and political participation.

Stephen Damianos is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. His research explores the usage of digital technologies within border regimes, with specific focus on the deployment of Skype within the Greek asylum procedure. Using ethnographic methods and critical phenomenological approaches, he studies temporalities, waiting, migrant masculinities, technologically-mediated state violence, and the ethical dilemmas of arising from digital bordering. He works closely with FORGE for humanity, an Athens-based NGO supporting displaced men traveling solo, and also works with the UK Civil Society Atrocity Prevention Working Group and the Refugee-Led Research Hub, where he serves as a supervisor to researchers with backgrounds of displacement. Stephen is a member of the Emerging Scholars network at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in Kensington, Australia. Previously Stephen interned with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, as well as Perseus Strategies, a human rights law firm in Washington, DC. He is a Rhodes Scholar and a Truman Scholar, and holds an MPhil in International Development from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dorina Damsa is a doctoral research fellow in the Department of Criminology and the Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on migration, punishment, and gender.