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2009 Magister in Cultural Studies/European Ethnology (Humboldt University, Berlin)
2009 - 2014 PhD in Political Sciences/Postcolonial Studies (Goethe University, Frankfurt Main)
2014 -2015 Postdoctoral researcher at Heine University, Duesseldorf
since 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt Unviersity, Berlin

Ahmed Hamila is Professor of sociology of migration at the University of Montreal (Canada). His research interests include the asylum policies, gender and sexuality, human rights and migrations studies .

Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy.

Heike studied Spatial Planning and gained her Doctorate at TU Dortmund University. She is a senior researcher at ILS research, Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development in Dortmund/Germany. Heike´s research interests center on processes of social and spatial inclusion and exclusion. One major focus is on migrants´ discrimination on the housing market. Heike is currently investigating the role of arrival infrastructures in German cities and local integration policies. In her research, Heike combines a range of qualitative ethnographic methods, including narrative interviews and network analysis.

Steph Hanlon is the Programme Director for the BA (Honours) in Social, Political and Community Studies in Carlow College.

Her background is in politics and sociology and her research specialism is in migration, citizenship, and border criminology. Steph is a PhD candidate in the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, where her research focudes on the anticipatory criminalisation of marriage migration.

Nacera Haouchine is a full-time PhD student in International Relations at Keele university, UK. She is based in the School of Social, Political and Global Studies (SPGS). Her research focuses on migration and security studies. She delivered several seminars on Securing Global Order and she is lecturing on Human Rights and Global Politics. Nacera is a former editor of Under Constrcution @ keele Journal (@UCKeele) and she is currently an editorial assistant for IDEA Journal (@journal_idea) and a blog editor for IMISCOE PhD Blog (@IMISCOE_PhD).