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My work is located at the intersection of critical urban research, reflexive migration studies and STS. I am particularly interested in how knowledge, power and policies are interconnected in the field of migration studies, what space(s) they produce and to what extent they generate inequalities. I am investigating this using the example of a Berlin policy programme "BENN Berlin develops new neighbourhoods".

I work at the Geography Department of the HU Berlin as a research assistant, PhD student, and lecturer. In addition, I have been working in the research project "MAPURBAN" since April 2021 as a research coordinator in the working group "Globalisation, Transformation, Gender" at the FU Berlin. I am also associated with the research training group of the SFB 1265 "Re-figuration of spaces" . I studied geography, sociology and urban and regional planning in Berlin, Lund (Sweden) and Melbourne (Australia).

Areej Jamal is a PhD researcher at the University College London, Social Research Institute. Her research focusses on South Asian migrants living in Saudi Arabia.

I am currently (2020) working at the Centre of Migration Research as a head of Economics of Migration Research Unit. Previously I was working in a project "The impact of wealth formation by economic migrants on their mobility and integration: Polish migrants in countries of the European Community and Australia", where we studied how owning certain assets e.g. real estate influences Poles' mobility.

I graduated from the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, in 2008 I defended MA dissertation on properties of income inequality measures. In 2010 I obtained BA at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw. I graduated from the doctoral program at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, where in 2016 I defended my doctoral thesis entitled “Income inequality measures and individual evaluations of income inequality”.

Kristýna Janurová is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University and a researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs in Prague. She conducts research in international migration, family and social policy. In the migration field, she specializes in migrant transnationalism, belonging, migrant and returnee civic engagement, including political participation, diaspora-state relations and diaspora policy analysis.

Marta Jaroszewicz, assistant professor at the Centre of Migration Research sas a leader of the NCN-funded project “Securitisation (de-securitisation) of migration on the example of Ukrainian migration to Poland and internal migration in Ukraine”. In the past long-term researcher at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) where among others she held a position of the senior research fellow, head of department, and project’s team leader. In 2017-2019 she was a team leader in a Horizon 2020-financed project “EU-STRAT (The EU and Eastern Partnership Countries: An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment”. She defended her PhD in 2008. Previously worked also for the International Organization for Migration (Mission in Ukraine) as a project manager, and seconded national expert at the European Commission (Directorate General Neighborhood). Her research interests include: links between migration and security, policies’ diffusion, impact of external actors on the national policies, migration policies in the EU’s eastern neighborhood and at the Eurasian area.

Alina Jašina-Schäfer is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the department of Cultural Anthropology and
European Ethnology, University of Mainz. She studied Central and East European Studies at the
University of Glasgow, International Relations at the Central European University in Budapest and holds a
PhD in Cultural Studies from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. In the past Alina has published on
topics such as exclusion, belonging and home, horizontal citizenship, gendered experiences of work,
epistemic biases and knowledge production. In her current research project, she is exploring the changing
systems of value around human worth in the context of post-Soviet migration to Germany.

I am a social and organizational psychologist who specialize in quantitative research. My research focus is a informal capitals of migrants. For me migration is human enrichment experience. The situation of change and necessity to find oneself in an uncertain situation builds the migrants' capitals. During my time off you will probably find me listening to the good music. I really enjoy cooperation with others - so if you are looking to do a project, contact me.

Professor of Geography at the University of Turku. Former director of research consortium URMI (Urbanization, Mobilities and Immigration, www.urmi.fi). Recently conducted research on asylum-related journeys, irregular migration and related processes in the EU, at the border of the EU and in the origin countries. Recent field studies among migrants include Lesvos (Greece), Lampedusa (Italy), Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany), Finland, Jordan, Turkey, Iran.