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Professor of Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Previously Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford.

Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. He is particularly interested in the links between migration and wider public policies, and the tensions between diversity in national institutions (broadly conceived) and supra-national policy-making.

Professor at the Human Rights Institute of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Deusto (Bilbao/San Sebastian, Basque Country). He has been legal adviser of the Basque Ombudsman and the president of a Basque NGO working in the promotion of human rights of immigrants in Spain. He has also been a member of the Spanish Council for Integration of Migrants (highest consultative body of the Spanish Government on the matter) and has participated in several missions of the Council of Europe concerning linguistic and national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. His fields of research are immigration and integration law and policies, national conflicts, minority rights and the relation between human rights and religious, linguistic and cultural diversity.

Paolo Ruspini (MA Pol. Sci., PhD, Milan) has been researching international and European migration and integration since 1997 with a comparative approach and by drawing on mixed methods. He is currently Associate Researcher at the Institute of Sociological Research (IRS), Geneva School of Social Science, University of Geneva, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton. Recent publications include Migrants Unbound (2019, Transnational Press London, author) Migration and Transnationalism Between Switzerland and Bulgaria (2017, Springer, co-editor) and A Decade of EU Enlargement: A Changing Framework and Patterns of Migration, (2014, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, co-editor).