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I'm a doctoral student at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Using a mixed methods approach, my research examines the needs, experiences and outcomes of children in relation to the financial support provided to families under Asylum Support - a parallel system of state support for asylum-seekers in the UK. My research is funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

My wider research focus is on poverty and inequality within the immigration and asylum context, and so far I have focused on policies which restrict access to mainstream social security benefits for children in migrant families referred to as 'no recourse to public funds' / NRPF policies.

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked at The Children's Society leading the organisation's policy, influencing and research work on poverty and inequality, with expertise in asylum, immigration and trafficking policy. During this time, I managed a number of research projects including on poverty among children and young people subject to immigration control; legal aid for separated children's immigration matters; and the impact of family debt on children's mental health and well-being.

I am versatile policy analyst and policy adviser. In regard of this, I am results-driven professional with 10 years of comprehensive experience developing exceptional relationships with public and private sector as well as civil society in provide sustainable service and policy solutions, superb project leadership and partnership abilities and personal management skills with strong expertise in the human rights, Rule of law and immigration field.

I am a lecturer at York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights, where I co-convene the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice.

Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez is Head of Migration Policies and Diversity at Instrategies, a think&do firm, and associate researcher at GRITIM-Pompeu Fabra University. She is also an expert for Intercultural Cities-Council of Europe and coordinator of the RECI-Spanish Network of Intercultural Cities.

She was Head of Cabinet of the Spanish Secretariat of Immigration and Emigration (2010-2012) and Head of the Research Programme on International Migration at CIDOB (2001-2010). She has been involved in several European projects such the C4i-Communication for Integration project lead by the Council of Europe, the European Task Force on Irregular Migration (IFRI, 2009-2011) or the SSH-FP7 TEMPER (Temporary versus Permanent Migration). She has been appointed as an expert for the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee in different opinions. She graduated from Autonomous University of Barcelona with a BA in Political and Public Administration Sciences and hold a MA in International Relations and a MA in Political Analysis.

Her main areas of interest are the Spanish and EU migration instruments, integration policies and the external dimension of migration policies.

Asya Pisarevskaya is an Assistant Professor of Migration and Diversity at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Currently she studies migration-related diversities and modes of governance in European cities within the project “Cities of Migration”. Also, she investigates the development of migration studies as a scientific field. Her wider research interests lie in the realm of comparative migration and diversity studies, integration policies and labour market participation of forced migrants.
She was the manager of Horizon 2020-funded project “CrossMigration”, which resulted in creation of this platform www.migrationresearch.com.

Gaby Poblet is an Anthropologist specialized in International Migrations and Public Policies. She holds a PhD in social anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and she is a researcher at the Centre for Migration Studies—EMIGRA (UAB). She is a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and at the Catalonia Open University (UOC) in Anthropology and Human Evolution. Her teaching includes Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Evolution, Anthropology Applied to public policy and Etnography and Qualitative research methodology at undergraduate and graduate levels.

She is the Ahead of ESM network (Europa Sense Murs, Europe Without Borders) and she has also worked as a consultant in several studies and reports for local governments and ONG's and international organisms such as ACNUR, Unicef, Save the Children, SETEM and European Comission. Her current research focuses on forced migration from Northern Triangle of Central American and endemic violence and she has also worked in several projects in the field of Latino migrations to Spain, migrant domestic workers and gender, family life rights, social integration, inequalities, and citizenship.