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Gloria Zuccarelli is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy), researching on intergenerational justice and generational sovereignty in ageing societies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Studies at the University of Milan in June 2022, on “Asylum-seeking and Refugee Women: A Normative Framework”. Her research interests mainly focus on refugeehood, intersectionality, and gender perspectives on forced migration. She currently works on vulnerability and injustice in forced displacement and on permissibility of migrant smuggling.

I am a sociologist from Argentina, and currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UC3M. I am the PI of GLAM - Global South Migration and Comparative Integration: A Study of South American Migrants (EU Horizon # 101023322). I have a PhD in Political and Social Sciences (European University Institute, 2015). My research interests include: social inequality & stratification; ethnicity & migration; spatial segregation, neighboruhood effects and residential mobility; and quantitative methods.

Johanna O. Zulueta is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Global Diversity Studies, Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University. She received her Ph.D. (Sociology) from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. Her research interests focus on migrations in East Asia, particularly on issues related to ethnicities, gender and families, citizenship, return and home, and ageing. For more than a decade, she has looked into migrations and military basing in Okinawa. Currently, she is examining perceptions on ageing and the end-of-life, as well as social well-being among older migrants in Japan and Malaysia. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, she also edited books about migrations between Japan and the Philippines. She is author of Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Okinawan Women’s Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei (Routledge, 2022).

Since 2019 Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 2009 to 2018 worked at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb. Received a BA degree in Sociology and History science at the University of Zagreb, MA degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University, and defended PhD thesis in Sociology ("Impact of Environmental Changes on Generating of In/voluntary Migration), at the University of Zagreb. Published within interdisciplinary fields of forced migration, refugee, ethnicity and environmental studies. Research focus on various structural causes and drivers of migration, and post-migration processes, with a special interest on the Central and South-East European region.

Karolina Łukasiewicz is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research. Her research is focused on immigrant integration and poverty policies in urban contexts. She has been studying various aspects of these policies for over 15 years in European and American cities using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her research was funded by the European Commission, European Social Fund, the National Science Centre in Poland, national and local administrations (e.g. the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior), the American Association of University Women, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at New York University and Jagiellonian University. Her articles were published in journals such as Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies, International Migration, City and Community, Polish American Studies, and Journal of Family Issues. Additionally to her academic engagement, Karolina has served as an evaluation consultant for NGOs and centers supporting immigrant communities, including the NYU Collaborative for New Immigrant Education. Prior to joining CMR, Karolina was a researcher at McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy and Research at New York University and at the Centre for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at the Jagiellonian University. She received her postdoctoral training at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, Ph.D. in Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, and M.A.in European Political Sociology at Dalarna University and at the Jagiellonian University.

Psychologist. She develops and implements intercultural sensitivity and social skills development trainings. She works within a field of cross-cultural negotiation consulting, and international team management.
She specializes in increasing the efficiency of organizational cultures as well as in preventing organizational pathologies. Her research focuses on managers’ personality, communication, diversity and change managementin cross-cultural context. She studies organizational psychopaths, narcissists and histrionic personality disorders in management. Her professional interests also include game-simulation techniques in training, consulting and research practice.

She is a visiting professor at The Polish University Abroad in London and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.

At SWPS University she teaches cross-cultural organizational psychology and is a Master’s thesis advisor.