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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.

Amrita Datta is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen. Her project focuses on the transnational practices, motivations of immigration, and trends and prospects of the Indian immigrants in Germany including the latest entrants - Blue Card holders and Indian students in German universities. With the Covid-19 as the special lens, the project proposes to argue that the fast expanding Indian diaspora in Germany impacts the German social life at large and vice versa. Earlier, she moderated a ten-session web talk series on covid-mobility interface titled "Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future" hosted by the GSSC, Uni Cologne and supported by the DAAD.

I am a Sociologist researching on migration. Presently, I am moderating a webinar series on covid and mobility called Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future (https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/webinare/2020-corona-conversa…) hosted by the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne and supported by the DAAD.
My current interest is in future of migration from the perspective of transnational practices of Indian women migrants in Germany especially those migrating under EU Blue Card scheme and for higher education. Significant rise in their arrival is changing the social-cultural landscape in Germany as these young women are visible in German public spaces, white-collar employees, often bring their male dependent partners and effectively combine 'home-here' practices to invent homeland in Germany.

I am also interested in migration-covid interface from the perspective of how does post-covid truth shape the future of migration.

Communication science studies at the University Duisburg-Essen and economic studies at the Distant University in Hagen. Since 2006 researcher at the Institute for Work and Technology, Westphalian University and part of the research department ‘Innovation, Space & Culture’. Here, she leads the thematic priotity 'Migration & Innovation'. Above all, she considers how immigrants contribute to regional innovation systems, but also how migration as an phenomenon shapes innovative actions within countries, regions and institutions. Her special focus lies at concepts of empowerment of immigrants as employees as well as regional potentials of immigrant entrepreneurs. She was lead partner and partner of several national and EU projects on migration related issues and was giving her expertise to several German ministries and the Integration Commisioner of the German Federal Goverment on Immigrant Entrepreneurship. In addition, she is involved in topics of distrimination and migrations narratives within Europe.

She wrote her doctoral thesis at the University of Twente (Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability) in Enschede (NL) titled: „Human Capital and the Role of Networks – Migration, Inclusion and New Qualification for a Sustainable Regional Economy” and worked two years as a consultant in Bern, Switzerland.

Dr. Julio Davies is an anthropologist focused on migration and diaspora studies, processes of nation-formation, racialisation and post-colonial legacies. Julio holds a BA in Social Sciences awarded by Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), and was awarded a MSc by King’s College London in Sociology in 2015, discussing dynamics of Brazilian migration to the UK. Currently finishing his PhD thesis in Anthropology at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), Julio was granted in 2021 a scholarship to undertake ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, Canada, investigating formations of local Lebanese diasporas and the creation of institutional spaces with a Lebanese profile.