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Sarah Mazouz completed a PhD in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales (2010) and is tenured researcher at the CNRS. Her main research topics are antidiscrimination in France and in other European countries, French public youth employment centres and citizenship politics in France and Germany. Drawing on ethnography, her work leans on Critical race Theory, sociology of law, sociology of public policies and critical anthropology of moral.

Following an approach attentive to institutions, the organization of work, individual trajectories and the relationship between institutions and subjects, her current research focuses on the current debates within the world of dance on transmission and pedagogy, the repertoire, and the implementation of diversity policies.

Nives Mazur-Kumrić is an Associate Professor of International Law, who has chaired various subjects in the domain of International and European Law at the University of Osijek, Croatia since 2000. She holds a PhD degree in International Law (University of Osijek, Croatia) and a Marie Curie postdoc degree in International/Nationality Law (University of Liège, Belgium). Her research interests lie in the area of human rights law, minority rights, citizenship, ethnicity, migrations, state succession, EU law, environmental law, etc. She is the author of the first university textbook on minority rights in Croatian – “European System of Minority Rights Protection” (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2017). Her studies in International and European Law include EUI, Florence; CEU, Budapest; Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway; Academy of International Law, The Hague; Department of Law, Politics and International Studies, Parma; and many others.

Currently, she holds the position of Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Representation of Croatia to the EU in Brussels, with most of her work focused on the even social, economic and territorial development of the EU. She is also a scientific associate at two faculties of the University of Liège, Belgium - the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Criminology, and the Faculty of Social Sciences. As a legal expert, she regularly takes part in legal studies and assessments of the European Commission in the area of human rights, migrations, citizenship and other topical issues of International/European Law.

Anna Mazurkiewicz, Associate Professor (dr habil., prof. UG), is a historian, a graduate of UG (1999, Ph.D. 2006), chair of the Department of Contemporary History at the Faculty of History. She currently leads the work of the International Border Studies Center at the UG – an interdisciplinary unit established to foster synergies within, and broaden international cooperation outside of the UG networks. She also serves as a Deputy Dean for Research and International Cooperation for the 2020-2024 term.

She has published four books: on the American responses to elections of 1947 and 1989 in Poland, and on the role of the political exiles from East Central Europe in American Cold War politics. Her book: Uchodźcy z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w amerykańskiej polityce zimnowojennej, 1948-1954 (Warszawa-Gdańsk, IPN-Uniwersytet Gdański, 2016) won the Willi Paul Adams Award, for the best book on American history published in a language other than English, Organization of American Historians, April 2019. She is also the editor of four volumes resulting from international cooperation/projects, including three in English (published in Germany and UK).

Currently she serves as the editor of the book series: “Migrations in History. Past experience, global patterns, memory” DeGruyter (Germany) https://www.degruyter.com/serial/MIH-B/html and the Book Review Editor for Poland „Polish American Studies” (University of Illinois, USA): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/pas.html

Mazurkiewicz the past President of the Polish American Historical Association (2017-2018) and a Board member since 2015. She is also a member of the Inter-faculty Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) for the Study of the Polish Diaspora as well as Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Recipient of numerous research grants and awards by Polish and American institutions, Mazurkiewicz was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame, Central European University (Budapest), Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar at the University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Buffalo, Valdosta State University (Georgia, USA) and Fulbright Senior Award, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA.

She teaches contemporary history with a special focus on the Cold War, U.S. history and U.S.-Polish relations, U.S. foreign policy, as well as offers courses in migration and diaspora studies. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-2755

Federica current research interrogates contemporary concerns in Europe regarding migration as represented in cultural practices.

She is the author of Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion (Peter Lang, 2019), which explores how activist and art forms have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration and generating a vital form of political dissent. Federica co-curated an exhibition on the subject of migrant death at sea, called "Sink Without Trace" which took place in June-July 2019 at the P21 Gallery in London. The exhibition focussed on art being made on the subject by artists who have experienced forced migration personally, shown alongside international artists.

She is involved in several interdisciplinary projects on migration, including a collective writing project called Minor Keywords of Political Theory: Migration as a Critical Standpoint (2021).
She has been working with NGOs and Charities including Migrant Voice, Art Refuge, Counterpoints Arts and Migration Collective.

Federica is the review editor of the journal Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (Intellect.)

Alessandro Mazzola is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liège, working primarily at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies CEDEM. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Liège with a NON-FRIA scholarship. He also worked as a post-doc researcher at the Group for research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Free University of Brussels. Alessandro’s areas of expertize include the cultural expression and political mobilization of minorities, the integration of newcomers in multicultural societies including refugees and asylum seekers, the political debate on populism, xenophobia and the extreme-right.

Valentina Mazzucato is Professor of Globalisation and Development at Maastricht University. She has been awarded 5 large-scale, international and interdisciplinary research grants to conduct multi-sited research in migrants’ African countries of origin and in communities where they live in European cities. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) one of the highest honours conferred to scientists in The Netherlands. She heads interdisciplinary and multicultural teams that conduct multi-sited research.She has published widely on transnational migrant networks, transnational family life and the effects of mobility on the life worlds of youth with a migration background. She was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator grant.

Dr. Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research Division at IOM in Geneva. She is an international migration specialist with 20 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior official and researcher.
Marie is a senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Sir Roland Wilson Fellow at the School of Demography at the Australian National University (ANU). She is a member of MIT’s Global Technology Review Panel, IUSSP’s panel on international migration and curates the World Economic Forum’s Migration Transformation Map. Marie has published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration. She edited IOM’s flagship World Migration Report 2018 (with Martin Ruhs) and the World Migration Report 2020 (with Binod Khadria).
Marie has led research, analysis and policy teams in government and previously consulted to IOM, ILO as well as in the private sector, including in South Korea, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey. For three years (2012–2014), Marie directed the $6.5 million Australian irregular migration research program, from which stems an ANU Press book that she edited (with Khalid Koser).
In late 2014 Marie was awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship to complete her doctoral research at ANU on irregular migration (approved late 2017). She is the 2018 recipient of the Charles Price Prize in demography for outstanding doctoral research in migration studies.

Dr Gillian McFadyen is a Lecturer at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. Gillian's research engages with the area of refugee studies. She is particularly interested in refugee law, the British Asylum system, EU process, as well as applying theories such as hospitality, labelling and postcolonialism to the refugee regime. She also has an interest in memory, trauma, silence and their application to refugee politics. Gillian's first book, Refugees in Britain: Practices of Hospitality and Labelling was published with Edinburgh University Press (2020).

She is continuing her research on the politics of hospitality, applying the practice to the climate emergency, examining the projection of British hospitality/hostipitality, as well as exploring the potential of community embedded climate hospitality as resistance.