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Postdoc Researcher at Utrecht University, Education. I hold a PhD in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium, in which I investigated ethnic minority students' experiences of discrimination and belonging in higher education. My current research investigates belonging, racism, and representation inclusion in education.

Bridget Collrin is a PhD student in the immigration, settlement, and diaspora stream of the Policy Studies program at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a dual Master of Arts in Political Science from Carleton University, Ottawa and the University of Lucerne, Switzerland where she developed a research interest in immigration and integration policies in both respective countries. Her past research has examined topics on the construction of discourse on immigration in multilingual democracies, and on the comparative study of integration policies at the municipal level. Bridget’s professional experience working with local resettlement organizations has also greatly shaped her current research interest in exploring how migrant solidarity and hospitality practices are helping to support newcomers in urban centers across Canada and abroad.

Simona Colucci is a PhD Student in Regional Planning and Public Policy in her second year at IUAV University of Venice. She graduated in Urban Planning and Policy Design from Politecnico di Milano in 2014. Since 2010 she has been working as a consultant on urban regeneration projects and participation processes both for public administration and third sector organisations. For three years she has been a project manager for a non-profit organisation and she coordinated a one-year research project, funded by J. P. Morgan, on practices supporting socio-economic integration of migrants in different European countries (www.same-project.com).
Her PhD research aims at figuring out the way in which Italian policies for the reception and integration of unaccompanied migrant youths shape their social ties and networks and how they affect their sense of belonging.

I am a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, Greece. My research focuses on the history of European integration and the history of migration in Europe since 1945.

My book, The History of the European Migration Regime (Routledge, 2018), explains the configuration that made free migration possible between the countries of the European Community, then Union. I have published scholarly articles in English, French or Spanish in The International Spectator, Afers Internacionals, Cold War History, Labor History, Le Mouvement social, Relations internationales, and the Journal of European Integration History. I have worked in the framework of a variety of collective research projects, funded by the French National Research Agency, the EU's research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020, and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK).

A graduate of the École normale supérieure in Paris (Ulm, PSL), I earned a European PhD summa cum laude in the History of Europe and International Relations from Sorbonne University, with a prize-winning dissertation titled "The Formation of the European Migration Regime, 1947–1992." I held successive academic and research positions at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California, Berkeley, the Vienna School of International Studies, and the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB).

I am a social science researcher working at the nexus of human geography, demography and sociology. Main topics of interest include older migrants and their well-being, regional differences in ageing, social networks and support, and social solidarity. In the past I have looked at the case of Bulgarian older adults, Polish migrants and their parents left behind and the social networks and support systems of Europeans. Currently I am mainly researching older migrants in the Netherlands.

I am a Full Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After a transition from research on water security and community-based monitoring, my work since 2018 has been focused on West African migration, specifically involuntary immobility, containment development, and most recently environmental migration.

PhD candidate in sociology at the NCCR LIVES, University of Geneva. Working at Parchemins’project : a prospective, mixed-methods study on the impact of a legal status regularization on undocumented migrants’ health and well-being; focusing on aspirations.