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Elisa Alves holds a PhD in Migration Studies (IGOT - Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon). Between 2016-2019 she was member of the IMISCOE PhD Network, and co-coordinator of the Workshop Group.

She holds a Master's in Education and Society (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon), a Master's in Economics and Public Policy (ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management - University of Lisbon), and a Degree in Political Science and International Relations (Catholic University of Portugal).

In the past years, she has collaborated with the European Migration Network and the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service in several studies on the Portuguese case, as consultant and author. Has also participated in several research projects at CIES - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE, in particular on education and higher education.

Her main interests are international students and mobility, public policies on education, migration and integration.

I hold a PhD in Cultural Studies (University of Minho, Portugal), and master's and bachelor's degrees in Psychology (Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil). I was a postdoctoral fellow at UFES/Brazil. Currently, I am a Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) at University of Lille/France and a collaborating researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS)/University of Minho, where I am a team member of the project "Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures" (MigraMediaActs, FCT, 2022-2025). I collaborated on the project COST Action IS 1205: 'Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union', and I was a researcher at the Network of Studies and Research in Social Psychology (REDEPSO)/Brazil. I have experience in the fields of Social Psychology and Cultural Studies, with an emphasis on identity processes, intergroup relations, and socio-cultural practices. My research interests include: migration, intercultural communication, minority groups, prejudice, discrimination, social inequality, social representations, social memory, Latin America, and decolonial thinking.

I am Adham Aly, MsC in Public Administration with specialization in Governance of Migration and Diversity at Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.
I am an academic tutor and junior lecturer at EUR, specifically the faculty of Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (ESSB) within the Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS).
I am also the former Network Officer for IMISCOE and currently the leading researcher for WP1 SPRING

I am a Portuguese anthropologist . My main research interests are in the field of political anthropology, with particular emphasis on mobility and border issues; EU and Portuguese border and migration policy ; images and practices of the state on borders, migration and security. Current interests are in the mobility regimes, the impact of the austerity crisis in Portugal on migration policies through the case of the Golden Visa.

Associate Professor of Demography at the Faculty of Economics and affiliated to the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance -Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a PhD in Demography and Economics (2006) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She has been working since more than 10 years on international migration, with special attention to migrants’ integration, migration policies and demographic behavior of migrant populations.

Maurizio Ambrosini, phd
Born in Vercelli (Italy), the 7th October 1956.

Current position: Full Professor of Sociology of Migrations, Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences, University of Milan.

Maurizio Ambrosini, PhD in Sociology (1989), researcher at the Catholic University of Milano (1989-1998), was professor of Sociology of organization and Sociology of work in the same university, seat of Brescia.
From 1998, he became Associated Professor of Sociology at the University of Genoa, faculty of Education Sciences. In 2002, he won a comparative evaluation for a full chair in Economic Sociology, and from the 1st October 2005 he has been appointed as full professor at the university of Milan, holding the chair of Sociology of Migrations: the first chair in Italy as full professor in this field. He has directed many studies on immigration issues in Italy, funded by the Italian Ministery of Research and by several public and private institutions.

Others tasks and results:
- Chargé d’enseignement, university of Sophia-Antipolis, Nice (France)
- Editor of the journal “Mondi migranti”, first Italian Journal of Sociology of Migrations
- Member of the scientific committee of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
- Scientific director of the Centre for Migration Studies Medì – migrations in the Mediterranean, of Genoa
- Director of the Genoa’s Sociology of Migrations Summer School, sponsored by the Italian Sociological Association
- Author of the handbook “Sociologia delle migrazioni”, Il Mulino pub., 2011 (2nd ed.), adopted as textbook in many Italian universities
- Coordinator of the Laboratory LIMeS (Laboratorio Immigrazione, Multiculturalismo e Società) in the Department of Social and Political Studies of the University of Milano
- head of the Italian team of the European Project ACCEPT “Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe”, FP7 Project, SSH 2009, 2010-2013.
- Consultant of the Italian Parliament (Schengen Commission) (2006-2007)

Nina is sociologist and research fellow at ICS since November 2020. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the Technical University of Berlin in February 2018 with a thesis entitled “Democracy Under Construction: The Micro-politics of Ordering Transnational Citizen Engagement”. She expanded her expertise she developed throughout her PhD-thesis and developed her current main research theme since 2016 when she joined the ERC-funded project EXCHANGE (first based at CES Coimbra, later at CECS/University of Minho). Her research interests lie at the intersection of Sociology of Culture, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Migration Studies. While addressing how particular social groups and wider publics are affected by different biometric database systems, she explores relations between emergent publics, matters of citizenship and biometric technologies applied in migration and crime control regimes.

In her current project entitled “Affected (non)publics: Social and political implications of transnational biometric databases in migration and crime control (AFFECT)” Nina explores the social and political implications of growing database infrastructures – in particular their design, governance and implementation – on understanding and regulating affected publics. It is positioned at the interface of 3 fields of scholarship and societal relevance: critical migration and security studies; sociology of culture; science and technology studies accounts on making publics. She brings these fields together under a sociological gaze for exploring the problem of the silent social change brought about by biometric identification technologies in democratic societies and for reflexive engagement. The project studies two examples of systems set up for crime and migration control purposes in the EU: the decentralized forensic DNA data exchange system regulated under the Prüm decisions and the centralized fingerprint database system EURODAC. The study approaches those systems at EU level and from two country application sites: Portugal and Germany.

Livio Amigoni is PhD candidate at the Social Science Department (DISFOR), curriculum Migration and Intercultural Relations, of the University of Genoa. He is actually developing an ethnographic work on Sudanese forced migration focusing on factors driving high-risk migration pathway and support networks to the journeys. He is part of the solidarity network Progetto20K active since 2016 in the Ventimiglia border area and in the project Eufemia Info&Legal Point.

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A.-L. Amilhat Szary, Ph.D., full Professor at Grenoble-Alpes University, France and member of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’, is head of the CNRS Pacte research unit, a pluridisciplinary social sciences research center (https://www.pacte-grenoble.fr/en). Political geographer dedicated to border studies, and her comparative analysis of the border dynamics in Latin America and in Europe, led her to formulate the notion of "mobile border. Her recent research concerns the interrelations between space and art, in and about contested places. She is a founding member of the ‘antiAtlas of borders’ collective (http://www.antiatlas.net/en/), a science-art project and animated the Performance Lab (https://performance.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/) dedicated to structuring Practise Based Research in France. Co-editor of "Borderities. The Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders" (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and author of 60 papers and chapters, and over 15 other edited books or special issues of international journals.