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Tanja Schroot holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and works currently as post-doc researcher at the University of Turin. Her particular research interests and several publications are located in the field of intra-European (qualified) mobility and its intersections with education, socio-professional integration of migrant parents, and transnational family organisation. Particular focus of her latest research studies has been on the Romanian diaspora in Italy.

Marlou Schrover is a full professor of migration history, holds the chair of Economic and Social History at Leiden University, and in this capacity leads a team of about 30 researchers. She has more than 170 publications including 7 books and 5 edited volumes. In 2013, she successfully concluded a vici project. She has served on the PhD committee of 50 PhD candidates, and annually supervises 20 master students and 25 bachelor students in writing their thesis. Currently she is (co-)supervising 10 PhD students. Most of her publications are on subjects related to this project: gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, policy, migration, intersectionality, discourses and media, and the public vs private sphere. She has extensive experience in working with the material and methods suggested for this project.
Leiden University is internally recognised as a leader in the field of migration research. In 2006, Schrover organised the migration researchers at Leiden University into the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS), which currently has 170 members. LIMS is a member of IMISCOE (Europe’s largest migration research network). Schrover is the co-founder of the highly successful interdisciplinary LDE master sub-track Governance of Migration and Diversity, which is run with partners from Delft University (Urban Studies), the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Public Administration and Sociology) and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (International Studies).
Schrover has been awarded 2.1 million euro’s in grants. In addition, she has, with others, been granted in 2019 by Leiden University 3.5 million euros of so-called Stimuleringsgelden, enabling the collaboration of migration researchers within Leiden University. With this money the History Department had been able to hire as a member of staff dr. Andrew Shield, who is a specialist in the field of sexuality, migration, and intimate citizenship. The LDE master has been expanded by the addition of an LDE research centre. For this the Erasmus University, Delft University and Leiden University provided 1 million euros which enabled each of the participants (including the History Department) to hire staff to do research in the field of governance of migration and diversity.
Schrover has a large number of other leadership tasks including editor-in-chief of the Journal of Migration History, board member of the Leiden History Institute, the ESSHC, and The Posthumus Institute (research school of Social and Economic History). She frequently speaks in front of non-academic audiences, appears in the press regularly, and talks with people working for NGOs, at Ministries, and with policy makers. She organises (with others) monthly interdisciplinary gatherings on migration research, plus a yearly conference that is attended by academics and non-academic participants. These contacts will be used for this project. She has experience with converting research outcomes to larger non-academic audiences (including an exhibition, school project, and theatre play).

I am a linguistic anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum of Ethnography, University of Oxford, where I also successfully completed my PhD (DPhil) in 2021.

My research explores the impacts of Germany’s state-sanctioned language-integration requirements on newcomers’ socioeconomic (im)mobility. In so doing, my work addresses the lingua-temporal dimensions of migration, displacement and policy-in-practice, exploring themes of temporal disruption, uncertainty, waiting, stuckness and boredom.

My ongoing work is also concerned with the relationship between language proficiency requirements and newcomer access to the German labour market, exploring how underlying societal expectations for linguistic integration, as well as bureaucratic and administrative procedures, intersect with newcomers’ own decision-making and future-building.

My research has been funded be the School of Anthropology and Museum of Ethnography, Oxford.

Most recently, I joined the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University as a Visiting Student Research Collaborator (fall/winter 2019).

Dr. Susanne U. Schultz is as a Project Manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, in “Making fair migration a reality,” where she focuses on aspects of legal migration, global skills partnerships and migration cooperation with a particular view on (West) African countries. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Bielefeld University on (forced) return migration to Mali. She has published on deportation, masculinities, EU externalization, West African migration, training and youth. From 2009 to 2013, she worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Switzerland, Turkey and Germany.

Michał Schwabe is an Associate Professor in the Collegium of World Economy, Department of European Integration and Legal Studies. He graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) in 2004, with major in international economics. He completed his full-time doctoral studies in 2010 and defended his Ph.D. thesis in 2011. In 2023 he was granted habilitation degree by the SGH Economics and Finance Academic Council.
Michal is an author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications. Apart from teaching courses at the Warsaw School of economics, he was guest lecturer at HEC Paris, Nottingham-Trent University or KU Leuven. He was a speaker in numerous international conferences, including the International Metropolis Conference, Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America or the European Trade Study Group. His major research areas are international labor migration, competitiveness of economies on the global market, as well as macroeconomic effects of digital transformation.
Michał was a Dekaban-Liddle fellow at the University of Glasgow in 2012. He has also been awarded Warsaw School of Economic Rector’s prizes for his research as well as organizational achievements.
Apart from his academic work, Michal has vast experience in management consulting – in his professional career he worked for world’s leading brands as well as transnational organizations.

Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and works at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR), University of Salzburg, as a Senior Scientist since 2011. He is also member of the Migration and Mobility Research (MMG) Group at the University of Salzburg. At the CEPR he was also the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project "Social Justice and Child Poverty", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), from 2014 to 2017. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both with Palgrave Macmillan). Gottfried is co-founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie [Journal for Practical Philosophy] and of the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty and of the Book Series Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven [Childhood - Education - Upbringing. Philosophical Perspectives], published by J.B. Metzler. He is also associate editor of Palgrave Communications.

Together with Johannes Drerup, Gottfried is the coordinator of the Netzwerk Philosophie der Kindheit [Network Philosophy of Childhood] - a platform for philosophers and and interested reserachers working on questions of philosophy and childhood.

Furthermore, Gottfried has reviewed papers for several international journals including Journal of Poverty, Journal of Global Ethics, International Theory, Ethical Perspectives, and Review of International Studies.

Raphaela Schweiger is the Director of the Migration Program at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Her expertise and passion lies in strengthening global governance and tackling urgent global challenges. At the Robert Bosch Foundation, she leads efforts related to global migration governance, climate mobility, the future of refugee and migrant protection, and the impact of technology on (migration) governance. She also contributes to other critical global issues, including climate change, peace and conflict, democracy, and inclusive societies. Raphaela is a 2023 Yale World Fellow. As a political scientist specializing in international relations and global governance, Raphaela has a substantial body of work that encompasses publications on global governance, migration, integration, conflict, climate change, and their interconnections. Before joining the Robert Bosch Foundation in 2015, she gained experience working with organizations such as SOS Children’s Villages, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the Kreisjugendring München-Stadt. Additionally, Raphaela serves as a board member of the Doris Wuppermann Foundation, a German institution dedicated to supporting youth-led initiatives that promote democracy and civic participation. She holds a doctorate (Dr. phil.) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and pursued her studies in political science and law at the University of Munich, as well as international studies and peace and conflict studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, the Technical University Darmstadt, and the University Complutense de Madrid.