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Dr. Rakesh Ranjan is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Practice and Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Takshila Campus, Patna. He has been working on international labour migration, remittances, Diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship for the past eight years. He has worked with the India Centre for Migration, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, and the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, New Delhi. He also had brief stints at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. Rakesh has recently co-authored a book with Prof. Md Mizanur Rahman on "Indian Diaspora Homeland Engagement: Education and Healthcare Sector", published by Oxford University Press.

Researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno (CZ). Her professional interests encompass the topics of migration, civil society, and civically engaged art. For her Ph.D., she studied civically engaged festivals in three Central European cities (Brno, Bratislava, and Vienna) and showed how different styles of civic action of their organizers shape their use of festivals as tools for promoting inclusive urban environments in relation to migrants and ethnic minorities. In her research, she mostly relies on the perspective of cultural sociology (symbolic boundaries and boundary work, strong program in cultural sociology, styles of civic action, etc.) and utilizes qualitative research methods, such as in-depth and go-along interviews and critical focus groups. Her current research projects focus on boundary work performed by immigrant communities living in Czechia in relation to the locals as well as one another and the role of symbolic boundaries in shaping the political discourse of Czech-German international relations. Besides her academic activities, she works as an independent researcher and consultant and cooperates with a number of non-governmental organizations working in the field of migration, minority rights, and participatory urban planning.

Ekaterina R. Rashkova is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Utrecht University School of Governance. Her research interests lie in the study electoral and party systems, the strategic behavior of political actors, and representation. Her current research interests include the political integration of non-citizen residents in host countries, as well as the connection of national political parties to their diaspora abroad. Her work compares new and established democracies and has appeared among others in Comparative European Politics, West European Politics, European Political Science Review, International Political Science Review, Party Politics, and Political Studies.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

He has been a researcher at the Center for Urban Studies and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) in the University of Amsterdam

Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

He was holder of the Prof. J.A.A. van Doorn Chair in the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), a Research Fellow at the Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University, Istanbul, an Associate of the World Economic Forum, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) within the University of Oxford, and an Advisor of a wide array of local, national and supranational governmental organizations and civic society institutions, including the European Commission (notably DG Enterprise and Industry), the OECD, the OSCE, and the United Nations (notably the IOM, UNHCR, UNCTAD, and the Population Division).

He continues working on cities and migration, and keeps working as a member of the BROAD-ER consortium in which the University of Amsterdam is collaborating with the Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia.

Next to that, he stays on as a managing editor of the International Migration journal, and as a Chair of Metropolis International.

Policy Researcher, with PhD in Social Policy, specialising on migration politics and welfare state research. Extensive academic and non-academic research experience, including posts at the London School of Economics‘ Centre of Analysis for Social Exclusion, the policy think tank RAND Europe, UNESCO’s Institute for Educational Planning, the Expert Council of German Foundations for Migration and Integration, and capplied research ollaborations with German government institutions, such as the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ, or the Special Representative for Migration and Integration at the German Federal Chancellery. Currently Research Fellow at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), a political and scientific initiative to strengthen migration research in Germany, and Research Associate at Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, leading the particiatory research and qualitative evaluation stream of the French-German Forum for the Future, which engages with local and regional initiatives in France and Germany that strive to steer major social, economic, ecological or technological transitions in their region and to inform national policymaking.