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Ingrid Berns Pavezi is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Sociology, in Freiburg, Germany. Currently, she is also a doctoral research fellow at the Labor Migration Research Group and the Labor Europe and Europeanisation, at the Humboldt University, in Berlin. Pavezi is graduated since 2015 from the European Masters in Migration and Intercultural Relations – EMMIR, with a joint degree by seven universities in both Europe and Africa. Pavezi already holds an MA in Sociology and a Diploma in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR); and a Diploma in Law from the Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), both Brazilian universities. Her investigation has been based on global politics on migration as well as comparative historical sociology, sociology of development, sociology of inequalities, world-system analysis, citizenship studies and post-colonial perspectives of analysis.

Mikołaj Pawlak is associate professor of sociology at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw, where he serves as head of Chair of Sociology of Norms, Deviance and Social Control, and the Deputy Director for Research. He is a co-organizer of the seminar Nowy instytucjonalizm – teorie i badania [New institutionalism – theories and research].

Mikołaj Pawlak’s research interests cover new institutional theory, migration studies, sociology of knowledge/ignorance and failure studies. He recently co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Failure - the first comprehensive volume constituting failure studies. In the previous book he co-authored Ignorance and Change he analyzes the refugee crisis from the perspective of ignorance studies. In his previous book Tying Micro and Macro he critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum and presents it in the context of the debate on the micro- and macro-levels in sociological theory. His previous book Organizacyjna reakcja na nowe zjawisko [Organizational Response to a New Problem] applies the new institutional perspective in organization studies to the problem of emerging policies of refugees integration in Poland.

Irene Peano trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, where she received her PhD in 2011. She has previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Bologna, where she held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship, and at the University of Bucharest. For more than fifteen years, she has been engaged in research on the exploitation of migrants, with a specific focus on sex work and agricultural labour, and on forms of resistance to labour and migration regimes, to which she is actively committed. In relation to such themes, she also carries out genealogical, historical and archival research. Irene has done field research in Nigeria, Italy and Romania. At ICS, she was part of the COLOUR Project (The Colour of Labour: the racialized Lives of Migrants - PI Cristiana Bastos), before holding a position as Associate Researcher.

Luicy Pedroza specializes in comparative citizenship studies. She is a political scientist and was originally trained in International Relations, but her work engages avidly with other disciplines of the social sciences that intersect in the study of migration and citizenship, especially political sociology, legal studies and political theory. Dr. Luicy Pedroza is a Research Professor at the Center for International Studies of El Colegio de México. From 2014 to 2020, she worked as a Research Fellow of the GIGA (Berlin office) on two major research projects: first, a project on the diasporic policies of Latin American and Caribbean states (see "Polities Beyond Borders..." and EMIX), and second, a research project on how migration policies distribute mobility, residence and citizenship rights for both immigrants and emigrants, across world regions (see "Every Immigrant is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration -IMISEM" ). Pedroza's research has received awards from the German Political Science Association (DVPW) and the American Political Science Association (APSA). She is the author of "Citizenship Beyond Nationality: Immigrants' Right to Vote Across the World " (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Konrad Pędziwiatr - holds PhD in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), MA in European Studies from the University of Exeter (UK) and in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University (Poland). He is a principal investigator and coordinator of the Multiculturalism and Migration Observatory, professor in the Department of International Relations at the Cracow University of Economics, Deputy Director of the Center for Advanced Studies of Population and Religion (CASPAR) and an associate researcher in the Centre for Migration Research (CMR) at the University of Warsaw. He is author/co-author of numerous publications on religion and ethnicity in the processes of migration, migration policy, Islam and Muslims in Europe, and the politicization of Islam in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa including the monographs: "From Reception to Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Poland"-2022, "Migrations and Covid-19" - 2022, "Immigrants in Krakow" - 2021, "Transformation of Islamisms in Egypt and Tunisia in the shadow of the Arab Spring" - 2019, “Polish Migration Policy” - 2015, "The New Muslim Elites in European Cities" - 2010 and "From Islam of Immigrants to Islam of Citizens" - 2007, as well as, academic articles in such prestigious journals as for example: the Patterns of Prejudice, Journal of Ethnic and Migrations Studies, Social Compass and Gender, Place and Culture.

Experience in qualitative interdisciplinary research on culture and power structures with a focus of analysis in the intersectionality of oppressions they produce in groups and territories. The main fields of work and capacity building experience are in gender, international migrations, youth political thinking and movements, and collective emotions for social change. Author of Emotional Communities: Affectivities and collective action in Grassroots Organizations in Bogota (for download here: https://hdl.handle.net/10656/11194). Currently looking to expand the field of action in research or capacity building consultancies or projects in organizations that support actions that promote social and gender justice. Also interested in taking part in design thinking teams aiming at the social, political, and educational transformation of contexts and communities.