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My research revolves around diversity and integration beyond the nation-state. I explore the conseuquences of cross-border movements on the level of the urban (cities, neihborhoods) as well on the European level. Next to migration and mobility studies, I draw on postcolonial theory, critical race theory and whiteness studies. After completing my PhD in Sociology at Humboldt University in Berlin, I held positions at Sciences Po Paris, the French-German research Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, and the University of Flensburg.

International migration researcher currently doing a MA in Mobility Studies, in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padua. Has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from São Paulo State University (UNESP). Focused on Latin American migration flows and social network analysis. Assistant researcher at Revibra Europe, a network that provides support to Brazilian victims of gender-based violence and domestic abuse in the EU. Member of the Working Group on Migration at EST (European Student Think Tank).

Professor of law (EU law, HR Law, and Migration Law) at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Honorarium Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche carries out researches that focus on evaluating the legitimacy of the political systems of the European Union and its Member States. In particular she studies the effectiveness of the fundamental rights protection, notably examining the situations of exceptions and considering the conditions of margins. Thus, the serious crises which allow the concentration of powers and the restriction of rights, as well as the legal confinement which can conduce to power abuses and rights infringements are its main area of research. She concentrates her analysis on the EU immigration and asylum norms and their compatibility with international and European instruments of HR protection.

The University of Edinburgh, PhD candidate
Research interests: migration, political participation, civic engagement, civil society

Matteo Bassoli is Assistant Professor at the University of Padua. He has written extensively on civic and political engagement: three authored book in Italian, one edited volume on grass-root antidiscrimantion policies in English and two on local governance and sharing economy in Italy. He has also published on different aspects of urban governance, social inclusion and local policy making in the following journals: Acta Politica, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, IPSR/RISP Italian Political Science Review, IJURRnternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Governance, Journal of Social Policy, Partecipazione e Conflitto, Social Movement Studies, Social Policy & Administration, Voluntas. He has been working on precarity, gambling, migration, Roma issues and social exclusion in different EU funded projects.

University Researcher

University Researcher, Swedish School of Social Science Subunit
CEREN (The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism)

Tevfik Bayram is a Public Health PhD student at the University of Montreal. He completed his Medical education and Public Health Specialization at the Marmara University (Istanbul-Turkey) in 2012, 2019 respectively. He completed his Master of Public Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 2016 (fully-funded by Pears Foundation). His main areas of research are health inequities, oppression, and the health of vulnerable populations. His master's thesis was on health inequities between various ethnic/religious populations in Jerusalem; and Specialization thesis on migrant women’s access to healthcare in Switzerland. He recently led a research project exploring oppression and language-related barriers Kurds are confronting in accessing healthcare in Turkey. In his doctoral thesis he focuses on empowerment of unaccompanied refugee-claimant children in Quebec, Canada.

Raffaele Bazurli is a researcher and teaching associate at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He has been recently awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by UK Research and Innovation, for the project "Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities" (SPIMEC). His research focuses on urban governance and politics, immigrant welfare and asylum, and social movements. More information: https://raffaelebazurli.com/

Jean Beaman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University and has held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Editor of H-Net Black Europe, an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.