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Dr Claire Dorrity is a lecturer in social policy at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork (UCC). Her main research interests include Migration Policy; Border Securitisation and Externalisation; Refugee Displacement; Critical Multiculturalism and Superdiversity; Migrant Solidarities

Her most recent research projects include: EMBRACE: Exploring Mobility: Borders, Refugees & Challenging Exclusion (Irish Research Council New Foundations Program) focused on the frontiers of border militarisation, using two case studies - the EU Mediterranean border and the US/Mexican border (Sept 2020 -July 2022).
https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/researchprojects/researchprojects/earlieris…

Her current research project Migrant Education: Challenges and Exclusion (MiEd) is funded through the UNIC Research Seed Funding and is focused on participatory action based research addressing barriers to education for migrants in a local and transnational context. Research partners include University of Liege, Koç University, Turkey, University College Cork and community partners and migrants across university partners.

Claire is a research associate with the Institute of Social Science in the 21st Century, UCC (ISS21) and committee member of the Migration and Integration Research Cluster, (ISS21,UCC). https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/clusters/migration/

Claire is a member of the UCC Team of UNIC Consortium https://www.unic.eu/en made up of 10 university partners, focusing on; Diversity and inclusion, Impact and mobility, and Engaged and transdisciplinary research. Claire is the UCC academic lead for the UNIC Joint MA in Superdiversity in Education, Organisations and Society.

Claire is a member of the Task Force on Responsible Internationalisation & Global Engagement (RIGE) promoting Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility in Internationalisation in Higher Education and Research across European University Networks. https://utrecht-network.org/task-forces/rige/

She is joint editor of Migration: Global Processes Caught in National Answers (Nova 2014) and co-editor of Social Professional Activity: The Search for a Minimum Common Denominator in Difference (Wiener Verlag 2009).

Claire is a member of the University of Sanctuary Executive Committee and a member of the University of Sanctuary Working Group. She is also a member of the Schools of Sanctuary, Ireland Monitoring Team.
She is a member of the Latin American Regional Working Group (LARWG), UCC.
She is the School Applied Social Studies Internationalisation Representative, UCC.

9 years of experience as a civil servant at the Brazilian Federal Government. I am especially interested in research on migration governance, international cooperation, social policy, and human rights. I hold a Master's in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE. I also hold a Bachelor's in International Relations from the Universidade de São Paulo - USP, and Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas -FGV.

2011-2016 Ph.D. Researcher Münster University (Germany),
2010 Research Stay Universidad Guadalajara (Mexico),
2011/12 Research Stay Princeton University (USA),
2013 Research Stay UCLA (USA),
2016-2018 Postdoc Researcher FoKoS Siegen University (Germany),
2017 Guest Researcher Universidad Javeriana (Colombia),
2018 Guest Researcher Kumasi University (Ghana),
2018-2019 Lecturer Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Germany),
since 2019 Research Associate Giessen University (Germany)

I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the European University Institute´s Migration Policy Centre (MPC), where I work on the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration (OPAM) project. Before joining the EUI, I was a post-doctoral researcher with the Excellence Initiative at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I received my PhD (Summa Cum Laude) in Political Science from Humboldt-Universität’s Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences in 2016. I hold a Master of Arts in Political Science from Central European University in Hungary (2010) and a BA in Political Science from Charles University in Czech Republic (2008). My research interests lie in the fields of political behavior, comparative politics and political sociology. I am particularly interested in the factors that contribute to the formation of public opinion and attitudes (particularly attitudes to migration, ethnocentrism, nationalism, xenophobia etc.), using quantitative methods.

Nick Dreher is a PhD candidate in policy studies and migration at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is also a researcher with Bridging Divides, CERC Migration and Integration, and the Soli*City partnership. His dissertation research focuses on how international and local actors collaborate to support the needs of precarious migrants and refugees. Other research interests include transnational migration governance, digital nomads and the future of work, qualitative methodologies, and decolonial approaches to migration studies.

Prior to his PhD, Nick worked in non-profit and higher education settings in a variety of roles including program coordination, teaching, and research. This included roles with community organizations supporting migrants and refugees in South Africa, Uganda, and several cities in the United States. Nick has also led and participated in strategic planning initiatives and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion programmes at various institutions. He currently serves on the steering committee for the Global (De)Centre, a network dedicated to rethinking and decolonizing the ways we produce and share knowledge on migration, teaching, the arts, and more.