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Social geographer and sociologist | Research Assistant at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, Germany | National Rapporteur Germany, Migration Research Hub „CrossMigration”

Communication Officer working on EU migration & integration.

Christine Lang is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrueck University, Germany. Previously she worked as research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Sciences from Osnabrueck University and a Master in Sociology from EHESS, Paris. Her research interests include: cities and the local governance of migration and diversity, diversity & discrimination in organisations and public administration, recruitment of skilled migrants in the health sector, and educational and professional careers of migrants and migrant descendants.

PhD, Associate Professor and Researcher with a background in Economics and expertise in migration, diaspora and human capital development

I am a bachelor in Finance and international relations, MA in international cooperation. I started my road through the migration topic as a researcher in a University on trafficking in-person projects. Then I worked as a migration policy advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I have worked with the International Labor Organization and, the Organization of American States - OAS on labor migration projects, especially programs for seasonal workers. Since 2019 with the World Bank, I am co-coordinating the implementation of a migration and health project for Colombia.

PhD Candidate at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) and at the Research Unit of Migration and Society (URMIS). Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations. She holds a Master of Sciences in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a Master of Arts in Conflict, Security, and Development from King’s College London. Her fields of interest include emigration policies, diasporas in conflict, and political transnationalism. Her research focuses on the transnational political activities organised by Latin American migrants living in Brussels and Paris.

Christian Albrekt Larsen (CAL) has specialised in the question of how to build social coherent societies in open economies and multicultural settings. The academic work of CAL demonstrates that the institutional structure behind the “Nordic model” still provides a promising answer to this fundamental question of social science. Internationally CAL is best known for his work on how institutions, especially universal welfare schemes, enhance public support for anti-poverty policies and social trust. In 2006 CAL published “The institutional logic of welfare attitudes: How welfare regimes influence public support” (Ashgate 2006), which has been highly influential in the field of comparative opinion research. The book was followed by “The rise and fall of social cohesion. Constructing and de-constructing social trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark” (Oxford University Press, 2013), which theorizes why social trust declines in some post-industrial societies while it increases in others. In the national Danish context CAL has contributed with two books about long term unemployment (2003, 2009, co-authored), two books about national identity and attitudes to migrants (2008, 2016), a book about the politics of welfare reforms (2004, co-authored) and a book about universalism (2015, co-authored). The issue of migration and assimilation into Northern European host countries is prominent in CALs current project portfolio. CAL has received a Danish Sapere Aude II research leader elite grant (2012-2015) and a Fulbright grant (2015-2016). CAL is a member of the Danish national research council for social science (2015 – 2019).

Iuliia Lashchuk is a researcher and migration activist. She is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence working at the Migration Policy Centre of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Iuliia is focusing her research on the categories of otherness and strangeness with the specific focus on gender issues and female migration. She is interested in issues of identity, belonging, and diversity, as well as ethical dimensions of hospitality. She is a member of the Research Network on Ukrainian Migration.