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I am professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University with a PhD in political science from the Free University Berlin/Germany. I am a specialist in comparative gender studies exploring social policies, gender quality and more recently migration. My current research examines the intersections between public knowledge regimes, gender expertise and and policy making.

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Leda Kuneva is an Analyst at the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). She is actively engaged in CSD’s work on the topics of women’s and victims’ rights, gender-based and domestic violence, migration, and equality and non-discrimination, among other priority areas of the Law and Sociological Programs.

Leda specialises in international law, human rights, and international relations. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), completing a highly evaluated thesis addressing women’s rights and cyberviolence. In 2018, she attained a joint Honors degree in International Relations and Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, receiving the School of Law’s award for Best performance in Public International Law. In 2020, she joined the cohort of the OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security, targeted at young female professionals in international affairs. Before joining CSD, Leda was on the executive boards of two non-governmental organizations in Bulgaria and in the UK, and she interned for the Sub-Saharan Africa department of the Bilateral Relations Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Her key areas of expertise and interest include women’s and children’s rights, WPS, IHRL, anti-discrimination and substantive equality, intersectional vulnerability, gender justice, and organic forms of democracy.

Kaltrina Kusari (MSW, RSW) was born and grew up in Kosova before moving to North America to pursue higher education. The growing up in a post-war society has shaped many of her career aspirations and research interests. Her Master of Social Work (University of Calgary) research focused on the experiences of rejected asylum seekers from Kosova, with the aim of highlighting the voices of a largely hidden migrant population. Currently, she is completing her PhD at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary; her research is grounded in postcolonial theories and transnational feminism and focuses on the experiences of return migrant women to Kosova. Staying true to her commitment to social justice, she has grounded her work in the lived experiences of marginalized migrant populations. She has also been involved with research projects which explore refugee resettlement in Canada; homelessness and housing insecurity among immigrants in Calgary; financial literacy among older migrants in Canada; and the complexities of the nexus between immigration and disability.

Katie Kuschminder (PhD) is a Senior Researcher in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and an independent migration consultant. At the University of Amsterdam, she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant Reintegrate (2021-2026). This project will develop a conceptual understanding of what is reintegration governance, its implementation and effectiveness and a new theoretical framework of how different forms of reintegration governance shape returnees’ reintegration outcomes. Katie's research focuses on the nexus of migration policies and migrants agency. This includes in the fields of irregular migration, refugees journeys, return migration and reintegration.

Katie has been working in research for fifteen years and has worked on or led consulting projects for IOM, ILO, ICMPD, GIZ, WFP, World Bank, Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security (WODC) and as an expert for various consulting organizations.

Alexander Kustov is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Political Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research focuses on public and policy responses to immigration and ethnic conflict in high-income countries. His book project "Borders of Compassion" examines under what conditions most people accept more open immigration policies. Prior to his appointment at UNCC, Alexander was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He received my joint Ph.D. in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University.

PhD student at the University of Leeds' School of Sociology Social Policy and full-time lecturer at Brawijaya University's Department of Sociology

Lidia holds PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University (UK).
Her research interests are Migration; Displacement; Citizenship Policies; Refugees; Migration Policy; Humanitarianism; EU Asylum and Migration; EU Neighborhood Policy; Borders / Walls.
She is currently working on her thesis: Bordering and Othering of Internally Displaced People from Donbas in Ukraine.
Lidia is also a managing editor of the Refugee Review journal of the ESPMI network.

"I am passionate about:
- how people/groups/nations construct what unites and divides them within and beyond the state borders;
- how it impacts on politics of belonging, citizenship, and borders;
- migration trends & policies, & why people decide to move/stay/return"

Looking forward to cooperating with other colleagues on migration issues.