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PhD Candidate in European Studies
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Research Topic: Exploring the potentials of Interculturalism in supporting Social Cohesion: A Case Study of South Asian Migrants in London and Auckland

I am currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. My main research interests focus on collective identities and geographic mobility, tourist and migratory alike. Specifically, my research is on migrants' leisure and transformations of the imaginaries of the good life due to migration. I use discourse analysis and ethnographic methods to study these processes. I have been a ​guest lecturer, fellow, and researcher at the University of Cambridge, University of Wolverhampton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ISCTE in Lisbon and Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt.

Public Policy and Administration professional with a demonstrated history of working in the staffing and recruiting industry and large and complex non-governmental organizations. Specialized in issues of Governance of Migration and Diversity, , Project Management and Coordination. Master's degree focused in Political Science and Government from University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a Master's degree in Governance of Migration and Diversity from Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Research fields : Intra-EU mobility / migration; Return migration; Social Network Analysis; Mixed methods

Roland is a sociologist and migration researcher at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM Institute) in Berlin. His current focus is on estimating and surveying the population of irregular migrants in Germany. Previously he has coordinated and implemented the FIMAS surveys among refugees in Austria. He was also part of the core project team responsible for drafting, designing and implementing the MIGRATION RESEARCH HUB.

Avdullah Hoti is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Prishtina.

Education: Graduated in Management and Informatics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Prishtina (1994-1998), Master in Economics (2001-2002) and PhD in Economics (2003-2007) at Staffordshire University, UK. In 2008 he was certified by Staffordshire University for research methods and mentoring of doctoral students.

Academic and research experience: He teaches at the Faculty of Economy of the University of Prishtina since 1998. He teaches several courses in bachelor, master and doctoral studies. He teaches microeconomics and macroeconomics at Dardania College in Prishtina. He lectured at the University of Peja during 2008-2009. During 1999-2004, he worked as part-time researcher at the Riinvest Institute in Prishtina. He was member of the Governing Board of the University of Prishtina during the years 2007-2009. He served as member of several professional and academic councils at home and abroad. He has published six books in English, two of them as a sole author and four as a co-author. He has published 16 scientific articles in international journals related to the labour market, economic development and transition, education, migration and remittances, and other fields. He has participated in many international and local scientific conferences.

Karen Latricia Hough was an ESRC funded researcher who obtained her doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She has published a variety of articles in Oxford University Press, Franco Angeli and Open Democracy. She has worked as a researcher on several EU funded projects and currently works as a researcher at CENTRIC, SHU UK on two Horizon 2020 migration projects MIICT and PERCEPTIONS