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aria Schiller is an Assistant Professor of Public policy, Migration and Diversity at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work is motivated by the desire to understand and capture the dynamics of migration and diversity, with a particular focus on Europe. In her research she investigates policy implementation, street-level bureaucracy and governance networks, and she often takes a comparative approach. Previously, she was a Senior Resarch Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, a Substitute Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen, a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent and a Marie Skoldowska Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Migration Studies (2014) from the University of Kent.

Anniek Schlette is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on dual ethnic identity, ascriptions of ethnic belonging and intergroup relations. She is part of the ICS graduate school and The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). She obtained her Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University, and subsequently completed the 2-year Research Master in Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (MERM, UU). From 2021 to 2022 she was a junior researcher at the Dutch Institute of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), where she conducted research on polarization and online communities.

Dr. Andrea Schmelz holds a professorship in International Social Work and Global Development at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts. After her studies in Political Science, Sociology and Modern History and her Ph.D. at Berlin Humboldt University, she has been working for more than two decades in politics and civil society engagement in the fields of migration, education and social issues as well as in international relations and international development cooperation.

Samuel David Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Political Science Department at the University of Lucerne. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of migration, citizenship, and democracy.

Doctoral Candidate at the University of Passau (Germany) in Cooperation with OTH Regensburg (Germany). Member of the Bavarian Joint Academic Partnership "Social Change" of the Bavarian Academic Forum (BayWISS).

Since 2019: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts. Research Interests: Discourses about integration and migration in different contexts and medial settings.

I am a migration researcher and humanitarian practitioner with over nine years of experience. As a PhD candidate, I am researching the migration aspirations of refugee youth living in protracted displacement. As a humanitarian practitioner, I have worked with UN and NGO agencies in the design and delivery of evidence-based programmes, monitoring, evaluation and research with and for refugees, children and young people. I have extensively worked in the MENA region, and I speak five languages.