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Catriona Stevens is Forrest Prospect Research Fellow in School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Her current research, funded by the Forrest Research Foundation, addresses some critical challenges faced by the Australian aged care sector. This work focusses on workforce issues, with an emphasis on understanding the experiences and perspectives of the workers themselves, especially those from migrant backgrounds.

This work builds on her expertise in labour migration. Cat’s recently completed PhD in Anthropology and Sociology is an ethnography of recent trade-skilled migration from China to Perth titled ‘Unlikely settlers in exceptional times’ that explores how social class shapes opportunities, choices, and trajectories through the migration process.

Cat is active in supporting the work of the Migration, Mobilities, and Belonging (MMoB) research cluster at UWA and in 2017 co-convened The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) conference ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’ held at UWA. She currently co-convenes the TASA Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group (2021-23).

Dr. Laura Stielike is member of the research group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrueck. Her current research project explores the trend to use big data for the analysis and governance of international migration. In 2016, she completed her doctoral dissertation on the apparatus of migration and development with a focus on Cameroonian migrants in Germany.

I am a sociologist, specialising in migration studies. I have a BA in International Relations and Development Studies from Sussex University, UK, as well as a MA by Research in Evaluation Research and a PhD in Sociology, both from the University of Nottingham, UK. I currently work as a researcher at Bielefeld University. My research is broadly concerned with exploring the nexus between social inequality and international migration. I am particularely interested in conceptualising the effects of social inequality in migratory contexts by drawing on theories of time and immobility. I mostly do ethnographic and qualitative field research to gather my data, but have extensive experience with mixed-methods designs. I have a particular interest in undocumented migration in and from Africa, South-South migration, gender and migration as well as civil society engagements with migration.

I am a historian, professor at the Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and honorary affiliate at the Center of Migration Research, Warsaw University. I have written six and co-edited four books, and published more than a hundred scholarly articles on the political and social history of Poland in the 20th century, in particular international migrations, the communist regime, and the Holocaust.

Dr Michael Strange is Reader in International Relations at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS), Malmö University. His research touches upon issues including Global/International Political Economy, Transnational Civil Society, Migration Politics, the WTO, the European Union, Democracy, Legitimacy/Accountability, Local Governmental Activism, Healthcare and Health Democracy, and Political Theory. He is a coordinator for the global research and education project 'PHED - Precision Healthcare and Everyday Democracy', as well as two Malmö University research platforms - Collaborative Future-Making, and Rethinking Democracy.

Dr Katerina Strani is Associate Professor and Migration Theme lead at the Intercultural Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University. Katerina has a background in languages and politics. She has published papers on intercultural dialogue, racism and hate speech, language and heritage, and an edited volume on Multilingualism and Politics (Palgrave, 2020). Katerina has led EU-funded projects on racism and discrimination, and two language and culture apps, for newly arrived migrants and refugees, and for indigenous languages. She will be Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology and at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 2021-2022.

Andrea Strutz, PD Dr., is Senior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War and a lecturer at the University of Graz.

Her research fields include historical migration studies, exile history, Jewish history and displacement, memory studies, National Socialism and restitution matters, biographical studies, theoretical and methodological questions of oral and video history.
Among other topics, Andrea Strutz researched life stories of Jewish displaced persons from Austria in the USA and analyzed the transformation and transmission of memories to the second and third generations. Her postdoctoral project examined the history of Austrian migration to Canada between 1890 and the 1960s, with a particular focus on Jewish immigration. She has widely published in the field of historical migration research, the history of exile (esp. in Canada), and the treatment of victims of National Socialism. She is co-producer of the video documentary "continental divide. divided lives" about memories and narratives in families of Austrian-Jewish displaced persons in New York.

She serves as Network Chair of the Oral History and Life Stories Network of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen – BIOS”.
Since 2023, she is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Canadian Studies (ZKS). From 2017 to 2023, she was head of the History Section of the Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien (GKS) | Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries.
She is also co-speaker of the PhD program „Migration − Diversity − Global Societies“ at the University of Graz.