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Heidi Martins is a Sociologist currently working at the CDMH (LU).
Her main topics of interests revolve around: temporalities&spatialities; (im)mobilities&migrations; (un)belongings&identities.
She holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Univ. of Luxembourg, 2019) and two Master's degrees: 'Communication, Art and Culture' (Univ. of Minho, 2013) and 'Sociology and Anthropology' (Univ. Catholique de Louvain, 2014). Before that, she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Sociology (Univ. of Minho, 2008).

Rosa M. Rodríguez-Izquierdo earned her Ph.D. in Education and Society from University of Seville a in 2002. She is currently a full professor of Education at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). She formerly worked for the University Autónoma, Madrid. She is a social pedagogue who conducts research on multicultural education and teacher training. She has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and a visiting professor in Australia, and in several European and Latin American Universities. She is a research fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) in Harvard since 2005.
Her work has focused on inclusive education, citizenship and multicultural education, curriculum reform, teacher’s attitudes toward relevant practices, and the relationship between quality teaching, schools improvement, and social inequality. The prime focus of her work is the relationship between culture and schooling and how the children of immigrants acquire the necessary educational credentials and skills for upward mobility in a globalize world, and experience cultural shifts through the process of migration.She is particularly interested in studying how teachers help students who attain significantly higher levels of schooling than their parents and in understanding how to support quality teaching in systems where access to schooling has expanded rapidly. Her current research focuses on the relationship between teacher quality, educational expansion, and social inequality in Spain.

Dan Rodríguez-García is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the INMIX-Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His areas of research are international migration, interethnic relations, identity, racism and discrimination, with a particular focus on ‘mixedness’ (intermarriage and multiracialism).

She graduated with a Psychology Degree in 2017, and with Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Master's Degree in Humanistic Experiential Psychotherapy and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) in 2019 at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, which enabled her to work as a clinical psychologist for adult patients in a private practice since 2018. During her studies she participated in several research projects focused on different topics such as projective techniques, gender violence, prostitution and divorce intervention. She is currently working as a predoctoral researcher at the Research Institute of Migration Studies of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in the H2020 IMMERSE project aimed at mapping the integration of migrant and refugee children in Europe. At the moment, she is also enrolled in the Individual, Family and Society PhD Program from a multidisciplinary vision working on her thesis on mental health of migrant children in Spain.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated record of research success in Balkan Studies, South-East European Studies, Border Studies and Migration Studies. Currently postdoctoral fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. PhD thesis on Slavic and Albanian collective memory and contemporary identity discourses in Macedonia defended at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). Research conducted addresses the interface of visual culture, anthropology and memory studies, and focuses on South Slavic-Albanian borderlands.

Migration Expert with an extensive practitioner and researcher experience spanning over ten years in academia, national and international civil society, government administration and intergovernmental organizations, specialized in migration & asylum policy and research, governance, international development and international relations.

I hold a BA in Applied Languages and a MA in International Development and Intercultural Studies from the University of Lille III, France. I have been awarded an Irish Research Council scholarship to conduct doctoral research in the areas of labour market precarity and economic integration of migrants, which I will be completing in 2019. Other research interests include: gendered processes of migration, intergenerational mobility, international student migration, access to healthcare for vulnerable migrants, undocumented youth in education and access to redress for victims of labour exploitation.

Prior to my current role, I worked in the Irish Diplomatic Service as Assistant Director in the Latin American Unit and before that I held the policy and research portfolio of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) between 2014 and 2018 after having served for more than 5 years as the Strategic Advocacy Officer with emphasis on Irregular Migration and Trafficking for Forced Labour. I have also undertaken research and casework for former unaccompanied minors with the Dutch Refugee Council and worked on research projects on Language and Cultural Issues of Ethnic Minorities in Europe for the European Centre for Minority Issues.

I was elected as civil society representative in the Bureau of the European Migration Forum at the European Economic and Social Committee for the period of 2017 to 2018, as Chair of the expert group on Labour Rights for Undocumented Migrants in the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants from 2014 to 2018, and member of the 4th Advisory Panel to the Director of the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency from 2014 to 2017.