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A social anthropologist based in Norway, I have conducted migration research and migration related research for over 25 years. I began by investigating the meanings of home and homeland to Vietnamese refugees in Norway, and went on to study relations between Swedish welfare institutions and refugees from Vietnam. My PhD project explored and compared how ethnic and other differences were dealt with in schools in Norway and the Netherlands. More recently, I have looked into the impact of the Dublin Regulation on the onward migration of asylum seekers in Europe. conditions for asylum seeking children in Norway, and care worker migration into Norway from different parts of the world. From 2013 to 2018, I co-led the IMISCOE research group “Contested Childhoods in times of Crises” with Elzbieta M. Gozdziak. Currently I am Research Director for Studies on childhood, families, and child protection at NOVA - OsloMet and research processes of integration and belonging for children in refugee families.

I am an Assitant Professor at the Sociology Department of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. My research interests include inter-ethnic relations, welfare state attitudes, and migrant labor market integration. My work can be found in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, the Children and Youth Services Review, and the Health Sociology Review.

I'm a social worker currently working as a Research Assistant and P.hD Student at the University of Kassel/ Germany. My Ph.D. project is on Transnational Family life of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Germany and Social Work interventions. I'm also coordinating an evaluation study of a Labor Market Integration Program for Migrant Women. I obtained my Masters in Global Studies/Major Social Work, M.A in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, and M.A in Communication for Development.

Markéta Seidlová is researcher in the field of migration and intercultural studies. Her work focuses on immigration and integration policies, integration of immigrants, immigrant insertion in the labour market and spatial distribution of immigrants. Most of her work is based on comparative analysis of studied cities and/or regions/countries, like between France and the Great Britain or France and Canada.

Migration expert with regional focus on Asia, experienced sociologist with a demonstrated history of working in the academic research industry. Skilled in social research methods with particular focus on qualitative research methodologies, writing and editing.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Sociology from the National University of Singapore and a Master's degree in Development Studies from the University of Vienna (Austria). Focus on the study of migration, the migration industry, children&youth, ethnic identities. Always eager to broaden her research horizon.

Fluent in English, French and German, conversational in Japanese. Proven project management skills by conducting her own doctoral research project and organising academic events internationally. Accumulated publishing experience as an editorial assistant, editor and author published in peer-reviewed journals. Experience in handling organizational and administrative procedures, familiar with applying for grants, and experience with NGO work.
Always interested in publishing differently to reach broader audiences.

I hold a PhD in Urban Sociology from the University of Milan-Bicocca where I completed a thesis on a comparative analysis of urban conflicts, the normativity of policy instruments and immigrants’ political engagement. I was a Postdoc Fellow at the same university and at the university of Bologna where I worked on national research projects on social housing, immigrant inclusion, immigrant inclusion in small municipalities and intergenerational obligations. Since 2017 I have been working at the SSIIM Unesco Chair of the University Iuav of Venice where I have been researching on migrant inclusion and urban policies and on human trafficking and social protection, as well as on unaccompanied minors – as a legal guardian. My main research interests include: asylum and migration policy, multi-level governance, agency and institutional cultures, human trafficking and sexual and labour exploitation, begging, Nigerian mafia, the rights and guardianship of unaccompanied minors. I am currently involved in two EU projects: INSigHT (Building Capacity to deal with human trafficking and transit routes in Nigeria, Italy, Sweden) and Push (Precarious Housing in Europe).

I am a social anthropologist interested in the political economy of migration. Between 2000-2010, I worked in the development sector in South Asia, doing research, knowledge management and programme management focusing on gender equality and women's human rights.​ I was awarded the PhD in 2019 in Anthropology and Sociology of Development from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.My current work focusses on the political economy of migration in the Bengal Borderlands in South Asia.

I currently work at Centre Maurice Halbwachs (École Normale Supérieure) as a 'Chercheuse Contractuelle'. I am also one of the Editorial Managers at 'Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism'. I graduated with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. My PhD thesis explored the different forms of Kurdishness in Turkey with regards to place, the language use, and state rhetoric. My book based on this thesis (Customized Forms of Kurdishness in Turkey: State Rhetoric, Locality, and Language Use) was published in 2018 by Lexington Books. My postdoctoral research aims to unpack how whiteness is (re-)constructed intersectionally within the second-generation immigrants from Turkey. My research interests are belonging, intersectionality, transnationalism, and Turkey. I was also a Young Visiting Researcher funded by the Campus France Fellowship at Centre Nantais de Sociologie and a Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen in Germany. To date, I have taught various courses in Sociology at all levels at Istanbul Okan University and the University of Edinburgh.

I'm a PhD student at Trent University, Canada with a research focus on postpartum experiences of Ghanaian immigrant women moms in Ontario. I depart from damage- and deficit-based approaches, conscientizing the new moms to draw on the strength of their diasporic communities and the wisdom of traditional Ghanaian practices to improve their postpartum mental health experiences. My research interest areas are migrant women's health, gender and labour migration, and migration policy development. I hold MSc. Global Health from Uppsala University (Sweden), M.A. Social Protection from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and BSc. Physiotherapy from University of Ghana. My past research explored the labour market experiences of Ghanaian family migrant women in Germany.