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Anna Simola holds a PhD in sociology. She is an FNRS postdoctoral research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE) at the UCLouvain (Belgium). She is also an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Research on Ageing and Care (RG 3 Migration, Care and Ageing) at the University of Helsinki. In her work she develops critical approaches to research on EU migration with a particular interest on questions of autonomy and dependency. Her research covers a range of topics including employment precarity and lived subjectivity under neoliberal governance, interplay of welfare and border regimes from a transnational perspective; aging and vulnerability; as well as personal and familial affinities (Mason, 2018). Her current research investigates the role of affiinities in shaping mobilility and transnational family life of freely moving EU citizens.

Anna obtained her PhD at the University of Helsinki in 2021. Her PhD reseach titled "Passionate Mobile Citizens or Precarious Migrant Workers? Young EU Migrants, Neoliberal Governance and Inequality within the Free Movement Regime" investigated young European Union (EU) citizens’ experiences of free mobility in precarious labour conditions.

Until the late 2010 she worked at the University of Tampere as a project researcher on issues related to migration, labour migration and economic press at the Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication.

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. Her research focuses on subjective dimensions of immigrant integration, as well as national boundary drawing in political rhetoric and public opinion.

I am an ethnographer with a multidisciplinary background in sociology, human geography and anthropology. My core field of expertise is migration, with a focus on migration governance, migration-development linkages, and migration and diversity in host societies. I have a strong interest in the epistemology and practice of qualitative research methods. I strive for knowledge that can make a difference in the world we live in and often work at the crossroads between academia and practice.

Harshita Sinha is a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. Her doctoral research focuses on Internal migrant workers experiences of precarity and citizenship in the Indian informal economy. She looks at the intersection of citizenship, social protection and informal labour regimes in urban destination states.

Migration scholar