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Research Associate and Lecturer at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen.

I am currently completing my Ph.D. in Sociology at Koç University in Istanbul and am affiliated with the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). My research focuses on studying the linkages between migration and urbanization processes, particularly in Istanbul and Beirut. Previously I completed my Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy at the American University of Beirut and received a Fulbright Research Grant to complete research at Utrecht University. Additionally, I have worked as a practitioner and a researcher in the humanitarian and development sector with MENA and European-based organizations.

Shannon Gouppy is a PhD Candidate at CEDEM, University of Liège (Belgium). She is currently working on a thesis on contemporary antiracist mobilizations in francophone Belgium,, under the supervision of Marco Martiniello. Her research interests include the following themes : migrants and minorities’ political participation, processes of minoritization and othering, racialization and anti-racisms, unconventional forms of activism (including through arts and culture), and positionality and knowledge-production.

Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Her research agenda focuses on migrant mobility and integration, migration and trafficking, medicalization of human suffering, and migrancy and childhoods. From 2002 to 2018, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown. She also served as an editor-in-chief of International Migration, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on migration policy and research. In 2016, she was the George Soros Chair of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary.

Elżbieta is a recipient of several Fulbright grants as well as a residential fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. Her recent books include: Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat (Palgrave 2020) and Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values? (Routledge 2020) (editor with Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter).

Elżbieta received her doctorate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 1984.

Els de Graauw (she/her/hers) is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, CUNY, and Deputy Director of the International Migration Studies MA Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is an affiliate faculty of Black and Latino Studies and the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, as well as of the International Migration Studies MA Program and the Political Science MA and PhD Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Els is interested in immigration, civil society organizations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, and public policy, with a focus on understanding how governmental and nongovernmental organizations build institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation.

Prof. Dr. Izabela Grabowska is Full Professor of Social Sciences; sociologist and economist; from the 1st of September 2021 a Professor at Kozminski University, leads CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility; 2014-2021 a Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (SWPS University; worked there since 2005); 2016-2021 elected Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School (300 PhD students, 4 disciplines, 4 doctoral paths) of SWPS University; leader of Mobility Research Group with an onward activity; established and headed Youth Research Center of SWPS University (2015-2019); 2002-2019 Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research; since 2020 member of Scientific Board of Center of Migration Research at university of Warsaw; 2008-2019 member of IMISCOE Executive Board and Board of Directors; on behalf of CMR; former national expert of the European Commission in ESCO (Classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) and European Mobility Partnership; publishes in highly impact factor journals, e.g.: Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, International Migration; co-author of the research monograph Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital: Insights from Central Europe and Mexico (with Jastrzebowska, Routledge 2022); author of Movers and Stayers: Migration, Mobility and Skills (Lang 2016), co-author of research monograph: The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change (with White, Kaczmarczyk and Slany, UCL Press 2018) and Migrants as Agents of Change (with Garapich, Jazwinska and Radziwinowiczowna, Palgrave Macmillan 2017); co-editor of Mobility in Transition. Migration Patterns After EU Enlargement (Amsterdam University Press 2013). She has led research projects on: migrants’ careers, social remittances, peer-groups & migration, life courses of young migrants & Brexit (in progress till 2021), migrant liquid integration (H2020 MIMY, in progress). She is active in building international research consortia in EU Framework Programs and bilateral schemes

Daniel Granada est Docteur en Ethnologie de l’Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense et PhD en Histoire de l’University of Essex. Diplômé en Sciences Sociales et Mestre en Sociologie et Anthropologie de l’Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/PPGAS), master recherche en Étude des Sociétés Latino Américaines par l'IHEAL (Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. Est professeur adjoint à l'Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brésil) où il dispense des cours en anthropologie, sociologie, anthropologie et sociologie de la santé et de la maladie et débats contemporains.
Il étudie actuellement la relation entre la santé et la migration, les effets de Covid 19 sur les populations migrantes au Brésil et les impacts chez les professionnels de la santé.