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Nikos Xypolytas is a sociologist focusing on migration and labour. His research interests highlight the importance of low-status work for migrant exclusion. The result of this research is the elaboration of a theoretical scheme that approaches migrant exclusion in a holistic manner by identifying different stages in the migration and integration processes. His latest research follows the same theoretical framework and focuses on the refugee crisis and its implications for the future integration of refugees in the host countries of Europe. He currently works at the Department of Sociology in University of the Aegean.

My interdisciplinary research connects the theoretical and conceptual borders of political science, sociology, and political psychology. Specifically, I work on migrant organisations in host countries (diaspora organizations) and recipient countries (civic networks and organizations that advocate refugee /migrant rights). In my current project, I investigate alternative communicative narratives that such organisations can adopt to reach out to the wider public. These communicative narratives reframe migrants and refugees as 'deserving' and 'rights-bearing agents' and seek to generate cross-partisan public deliberation and positive attitudes. In my current project, I combine fieldwork, network analysis, surveys and online randomized experiments to predict how social change for more inclusive societies can be initiated. This research aims to offer policy-relevant alternatives to change racialized attitudes of various ideological, socio-economic, and psychographic groups as well as non-citizens (migrants and refugees).

Evren Yalaz is a postdoctoral researcher at GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Migration-Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Her areas of interest include qualitative research in migration studies, research ethics, migrant politics, transnationalism, and social movements.

Yiran Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and iHub at Radboud University. She is also a researcher at Radboud University Network on Migration Inclusion (RUNOMI). Yiran did her PhD at Leiden University on prejudice among underrepresented ethnic children and some social-contextual factors they are exposed to, such as their parents, literature, and COVID-19. Her current research focus is on potential discrimination risks in artificial intelligence in the context of migration.