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I am a member of the interdisciplinary research group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration" at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, Germany, and a PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz, Germany. I am interested in sociological theories and practices of governing migration as well as in the study of the production of police knowledge on migration.

Tabea Scharrer is Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). She does research in Migration Studies, Urban Anthropology, and Social Anthropology. Her current projects deal with return migration of Somali forced migrants from Europe to East Africa as well as with Somalian migrants in Germany.

Norma Schemschat is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) where she works within the EU-funded twinning project BROAD-ER. She is member of the Amsterdam Research Centre on Migration and the program group Political Sociology at UvA. For her PhD, obtained with honors from ENS-PSL in Paris, she worked on refugee-centered revitalization of peripheral places. Her current research investigates the role of unions as strategic vessels to shape urban migration governance ‘from below.’ Her work appeared in journals like REMI and Sustainability, and in edited volumes published with Routledge and Edward Elgar. Before joining academia, she has worked for several foundations and NGOs in the fields of children’s rights and environmental protection.

Kerilyn is a Lecturing Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development and Senior Researcher at the International Migration Institute. Her research focuses on migration and immobility, rural transformation, urbanization, education, and gender in Africa.

Being a psychologist by training, I held research positions at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, and at the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration in Berlin. Currently, I am a senior researcher at the German Center for Integration and Migration research (DeZIM Institute) in Berlin. My research work centers around social and cultural aspects of acculturation of immigrants, refugees, and ethnic minorities (bicultural identities, value complexity, cross-group relations), with a recent focus on the family in the context of migration.

aria Schiller is an Assistant Professor of Public policy, Migration and Diversity at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work is motivated by the desire to understand and capture the dynamics of migration and diversity, with a particular focus on Europe. In her research she investigates policy implementation, street-level bureaucracy and governance networks, and she often takes a comparative approach. Previously, she was a Senior Resarch Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, a Substitute Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen, a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent and a Marie Skoldowska Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Migration Studies (2014) from the University of Kent.