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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.

Research Professor at Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, also associated with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) in Brighton, UK. Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Co-Director of the INTEGRIM-Lab. PhD in Migration Studies (2018, University of Sussex) and degrees in Political Science and Sociology (University of Innsbruck). Previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna (project REvolTURN). My research focusses on the politics, practices, and challenges of governing international migration across different political and administrative levels, geographical contexts, and institutional settings. From an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, I study legal frameworks, everyday practices of policy implementation, and ways in which migrants perceive, use, bend, or resist the rules and restrictions imposed on their mobility and “integration”.

Helge Schwiertz is a postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at Universität Hamburg and corresponding member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. His key research areas are social and political theory, theories of radical democracy, citizenship, and solidarity, social movements and urban protests, racism and migration. He leads the international research project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe »From Below«: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies" and Transnational Networks" [ECSEuro] and is a co-editor of "movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies".

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I am a qualitative researcher. My main area of expertise is migrant political participation. More recently, I started focussing on migrant entrepreneurship and in 2019 I conducted a small study on Greek and Italian businesses operating in the restaurant industry in the North-West of England. I would be interested in projects on political transnationalism, migrant and ethnic entrepreneurship, professional migration and migrants' cultural heritage (with a focus on food).

Sarah Scuzzarello (PhD Lund University) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and a researcher at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex (UK). Her current research focuses on gender and migration, and she adopts an intersectional lens to understand how sexuality, class and race shape migrants' experiences of mobility and settlement. Sarah’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing from politics, sociology and political psychology.