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Mathis Schnell is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Laboratoire d'études des processus sociaux (LAPS) and is associated with the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) – on the move. He investigates how institutions in Western Europe assess asylum claims based on the persecution due to sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI). Using quantitative and qualitative approaches, he investigates what reasonings, frames and narratives are to be found in the related institutional practices. Additionally, he focuses on the question of how the digitalisation of the asylum systems influences the assessments of SOGI-related cases.

Judith is a geographer and researcher at the Institute of Urban and Regional Research (ISR), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Judith does research on socio-spatial inequalities, urban studies, migration studies, spatial theory and spatial analysis etc.

Dr. Irene Schöfberger is a data and research officer at IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin. Prior to joining GMDAC, she has worked in research and policy advice in several countries, including Senegal, Chile, Germany, France and Belgium. She has conducted research on EU-Africa migration and development policies and on transnational livelihoods at the German Development Institute (DIE) and at the University of Freiburg. She has also worked for the European Parliament and the International Council for Science (ISC). She holds a PhD. in Human Geography from the University of Freiburg, as well as an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Bologna.

Prof.dr. P.W.A. (Peter) Scholten is Professor in the Governance of Migration and Diversity at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His research focuses on amongst others on the governance of migration and migration-related diversity, multi-level governance, comparative public policy, and the relationship between knowledge and power in the field of migration. Peter is director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic research network on migration, integration and social cohesion. Furthermore, he is editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) and associated editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Also, he is coordinator of the master Governance of Migration and Diversity (a cooperation of Leiden University, Delft University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam), coordinator of the Erasmus Migration & Diversity Institute (EMDI), and external collaborator at the Migration Policy Centre in EUI Florence.

Karen Schönwälder is a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of
Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, and an affiliated professor at Göttingen University. She has published widely on immigrant policies in Germany and the UK, political
incorporation of immigrants, urban diversity, and organisations. Recent projects investigate diversity assent and the response of advocacy organisations to immigration.

I'm a Sociologist with a specific interest in Migration Studies, Transnationalization and Empirical Social Research. In my PhD thesis I analysed dynamics of change in transnational families. Currently I coordinate an action oriented project on local integration policies and intra-EU mobility between Romania, Bulgaria and the Ruhr Area in Germany (eu2migraruhr.eu). Before my position at RUB I lived and did research in Spain, Ecuador, Belgium,The Netherlands. I have professional experience in the media sector.

Benjamin Schraven is a Consultant and an Associate Senior Fellow of the German Development Institute. He holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Bonn. In the past years, his research activities have mainly been focusing on the issue of "migration as adaptation", migration and rural development, migration and development and migration governance (with a regional focus on Ghana/West Africa). In 2016, Benjamin has been seconded as scientific advisor for migration issues to the Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Between 2009 and 2014 he has also been active as a Guest Lecturer at the University of Ghana. Futhermore, he has done migration related consultancy work a.o. for the World Bank, UNICEF and several several development cooperation agencies.

I am currently a Phd Candidate on Migration and Globalisation and my research project is on return and reintegration between Europe and Nigeria.
I a have also previously worked many years in various UN and other international organisations on crime -related and human rights issues such as human trafficking and smuggling in West and East Africa and Europe .
My academic background is in Criminology and Psychology.

I am a PhD student at the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University Copenhagen. In my PhD project, I explore LGBTIQ+ refugees experiences with 'integrating' in Berlin and Copenhagen in navigating societal norms and expectations. I have an interest in queer and feminist studies. I am a PhD fellow at the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and have previously received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Foundation (DAAD) and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.