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Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe is since October 2016 associated professor (docent) at the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium).

I am the coordinator of CESSMIR (Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees). CESSMIR is an interdisciplinary centre within Ghent University dedicated to the social study of migration and refugees. Three key elements are central to the work of CESSMIR: interdisciplinarity, societal impact and participation (as a research topic, in research methods and as a way of enhancing societal impact).
I have a master in Special Needs Education and a PhD in pedagogical sciences. My PhD research was about integration an belonging in a multi- and intergenerational perspective, and also critically examined the concept of integration. After that, I coordinated the research project 'Childmove', that focused on the impact of flight experiences on the psychosocial wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors.
My research interests include psychosocial wellbeing, integration, unaccompanied refugee minors and families on the move. Furthermore, I am interested in and working on societal impact and participation.

Student of International Relations at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Developed the scientific initiation entitled “The relationship between the universality of the SUS and high-risk Venezuelans’ pregnancy”, published in the journal Lugar Comum. During this research, I analyzed the motivations that lead Venezuelan high-risk pregnant leave their country and come to Brazil, something that includes the use of the existing public health system (SUS) in this country. I was able to collect data showing the number of pregnant women who migrated to Brazil, to the state of Roraima, between 2016 and 2019, in addition to observing which public maternity hospitals they went to have the proper prenatal care and also the birth of their children. I was able to analyze the consequences of not guaranteeing a quality public health system in Venezuela, which caused malnutrition to women, lack of basic supplies in hospitals and, also, lack of prenatal care. Thus, when they arrived in Brazil, most of them presented greater health risks - demanding even more from the Brazilian public health system, which, in 2016, collapsed in the state of Roraima.

I am a psychologist and PhD candidate interested in intergroup relations, attitudes towards immigrants, nationalism, xenophobia and social emotions. My PhD is financed by the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research for Migration and Mobility Studies and is supervized by Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor (University of Geneva) and Eva Green (University of Lausanne). Previously, I worked with David Sander and Olga Klimecki (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva) on conflicts over immigration and on compassion.

Trinidad L. Vicente. PhD in Political Science and Sociology. Associate professsor. University of Deusto .

Phd student in Human Geography and Sociology of work at UPHF and Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Fields of work : Privileged migrations, labour migration, ethnicity and racialisation processes, qualitative research methods

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Centre d'Etudes Européennes et de Politiques Comparées, Sciences-Po, Paris.
Sociologist

Sofie Vindevogel, PhD in Educational Sciences, is affiliated to HoGent, Belgium. Her research is situated at the nexus of strengths-oriented, community-based and transcultural approaches. She has a particular interest in community resilience in contexts of collective violence and social injustice, and has been working with populations affected by armed conflict and political violence.