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Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies, director of the MAPS (Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux) and project leader in the nccr-on the move, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is interested in understanding processes of mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion or gender. She is the co-director of the Standing Committee of “Reflexivities in migration studies” of IMISCOE https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/927-reflexive-migr….

Izabela A. Dahl is associate professor in history at Örebro University. Her research concerns different aspects of history of migration and integration, processes of belonging and exclusion, exile and refuge. Witnessing the past can be described as the fruitful friction in her theoretical approach where the interest is put to the place of individual experience and oral history as a source of historical knowledge within the process of knowledge production within the field of historical studies. Her empirical studies often address different aspects of Jewish migration in Europe during the 19th Century. Here, gender perspective contributes to find fruitful research questions regarding identity shifts in the national and religious frames of peoples lives.

Shannon Damery earned her PhD in December 2020 and has been a researcher in the CEDEM since 2013. Her manuscript is entitled, “At home 'outside': Young migrants aligning their 'home orbits' in the city of Brussels". She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on two international projects: The Horizion 2020 Project CHILD UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation) and UNIC (Unexpected Inclusions: Migration, Mobility and the Open City) led by the University of Geneva (IRS) and the University of Liège (CEDEM-IRSS) as part of the Lead Agency programme (SNF-FNSR). Her doctorate was part of the INTEGRIM ITN in which she was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the framework of the 7FP Training Network “Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies.” Her research focuses on how young migrants’ official migratory status impacts their daily lives. She has experience in social work and earned her M.A. in Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. This degree was part of the European partnership program: CREOLE: Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes. She studied at the University of Vienna and conducted research at two sites: a refugee integration facility and the Vienna Youth and Family Offices. Her research interests include refugee issues, forced migration, home and homemaking, youth and childhood studies, arts and integration, and activism and political participation.

Stephen Damianos is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre. His research explores the usage of digital technologies within border regimes, with specific focus on the deployment of Skype within the Greek asylum procedure. Using ethnographic methods and critical phenomenological approaches, he studies temporalities, waiting, migrant masculinities, technologically-mediated state violence, and the ethical dilemmas of arising from digital bordering. He works closely with FORGE for humanity, an Athens-based NGO supporting displaced men traveling solo, and also works with the UK Civil Society Atrocity Prevention Working Group and the Refugee-Led Research Hub, where he serves as a supervisor to researchers with backgrounds of displacement. Stephen is a member of the Emerging Scholars network at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in Kensington, Australia. Previously Stephen interned with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, as well as Perseus Strategies, a human rights law firm in Washington, DC. He is a Rhodes Scholar and a Truman Scholar, and holds an MPhil in International Development from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dorina Damsa is a doctoral research fellow in the Department of Criminology and the Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on migration, punishment, and gender.

After a PhD scholarship (University of Genova, Italy - 2009/2012), he has been employed at the University of Bologna as post-doc fellow for three years (2012/2015). In 2015 he was Endeveaour Research Fellow at the Australian National University - College of Law with a project on "The principle of the best interests of the child in the context of migration" and, since 2016, he joined the University of Sussex as member of the SOGICA (ERC) Project research team (www.sogica.org).
He is author of a number of publications in the field of human rights law, especially in relation to non-discrimination and migration in the framework of the ECHR and the EU. In 2015 he has published his first book Tutela dei diritti umani, non discriminazione e orientamento sessuale, Editoriale scientifica, as part of the Collection of studies "La ricerca del diritto nella Comunità internazionale", eds. M. Arcari, E. Milano, A. Tanzi.
He has been involved in several research projects concerning EU and international law: among others, legal analysis for the EU Agency for fundamental rights; Western Sahara and international human rights law; national projects on non-discrimination law and on the contrast to gender-based violence.
From the academic year 2013/2014, he has been teaching Public International Law, Human Rights, Migration issues, and EU Law as temporary Professor at the University of Bologna - Forli campus as well as in many other Universities and programmes (see CV).

Sociable, rigorous, and results-oriented with strong skills as a research assistant, a consultant and a project manager gained in over 6 years working experiences with different organizations and NGOs in Benin and Togo, the last 2 years were specifically focused on migration, refugees and displaced persons. Native speaker of French, fluent in English and Hausa, with basic knowledge of Kiswahili and Arabic I acquired a wealth of experiences in projects’ coordination and management, budgeting, data collection and analysis, leadership and conflict management, and working under pressure in a multidisciplinary environment.

Dr Emirhan Darcan -SNF SAR Fellow- works at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bern. He came to the university with the Scholars at Risk program, which is an international network that supports researchers at risk. Emirhan Darcan researches and teaches on the topics of radicalization and de-radicalization, police and society, crime and public order, and much more. Emirhan Darcan is also involved in the initiative "Education for All - Now!", which campaigns for the integration of refugees in school, training and work. The initiative demands simplified access to education as a basic right for all.