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I am Head of the Research Unit “Causes and developments of deviant behaviour” at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN). My research interests mainly relate to migration processes and immigrants’ integration, right-wing populism, and deviant behavior. Across all these topics, I investigate paradoxical effects of religiosity. Although I am mostly using quantitative empirical methods, I am also conducting mixed methods research.

Catriona Stevens is Forrest Prospect Research Fellow in School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Her current research, funded by the Forrest Research Foundation, addresses some critical challenges faced by the Australian aged care sector. This work focusses on workforce issues, with an emphasis on understanding the experiences and perspectives of the workers themselves, especially those from migrant backgrounds.

This work builds on her expertise in labour migration. Cat’s recently completed PhD in Anthropology and Sociology is an ethnography of recent trade-skilled migration from China to Perth titled ‘Unlikely settlers in exceptional times’ that explores how social class shapes opportunities, choices, and trajectories through the migration process.

Cat is active in supporting the work of the Migration, Mobilities, and Belonging (MMoB) research cluster at UWA and in 2017 co-convened The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) conference ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’ held at UWA. She currently co-convenes the TASA Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group (2021-23).

Dr. Laura Stielike is member of the research group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrueck. Her current research project explores the trend to use big data for the analysis and governance of international migration. In 2016, she completed her doctoral dissertation on the apparatus of migration and development with a focus on Cameroonian migrants in Germany.

I am a sociologist, specialising in migration studies. I have a BA in International Relations and Development Studies from Sussex University, UK, as well as a MA by Research in Evaluation Research and a PhD in Sociology, both from the University of Nottingham, UK. I currently work as a researcher at Bielefeld University. My research is broadly concerned with exploring the nexus between social inequality and international migration. I am particularely interested in conceptualising the effects of social inequality in migratory contexts by drawing on theories of time and immobility. I mostly do ethnographic and qualitative field research to gather my data, but have extensive experience with mixed-methods designs. I have a particular interest in undocumented migration in and from Africa, South-South migration, gender and migration as well as civil society engagements with migration.

I am a historian, professor at the Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and honorary affiliate at the Center of Migration Research, Warsaw University. I have written six and co-edited four books, and published more than a hundred scholarly articles on the political and social history of Poland in the 20th century, in particular international migrations, the communist regime, and the Holocaust.

Dr Michael Strange is Reader in International Relations at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS), Malmö University. His research touches upon issues including Global/International Political Economy, Transnational Civil Society, Migration Politics, the WTO, the European Union, Democracy, Legitimacy/Accountability, Local Governmental Activism, Healthcare and Health Democracy, and Political Theory. He is a coordinator for the global research and education project 'PHED - Precision Healthcare and Everyday Democracy', as well as two Malmö University research platforms - Collaborative Future-Making, and Rethinking Democracy.