Experts Database

Dr Veronica Crosbie is an Assistant Professor in Migration and Intercultural Studies in SALIS, Dublin City University, Ireland. Other roles and responsibilities include Chair of the University of Sanctuary Ireland (UoSI) network. She was instrumental in establishing DCU as the first University of Sanctuary in Ireland in 2016, which entails creating a culture of welcome for asylum seekers and refugees, In 2017, she co-hosted the colloquium ‘Asylum Narratives’ and co-edited a special issue related to the theme for the journal Studies in Arts and Humanities, which was published in January 2019.

Maurice Crul is a distinguished professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is a specialist on school and labour market careers of children of immigrants and refugees in Europe and the United States. He has coordinated the TIES project which was the first European comparative study on the second generation in Europe. He has further coordinated two ERC Grant projects. The first looked at the upcoming elite among the second generation (ELITESproject.eu) and the second, an ERC advanced grant project, BAM looks at the new minority in superdiverse cities: the people of native descent (BAMproject.eu). He has written extensively about issues of diversity and inclusion. Some of his books include: The New Face of World Cities (Russell Sage Foundation Publishers), Coming to Terms with Superdiversity. The Case of Rotterdam (Springer), Superdiversity. A New Vision on Integration (Free University Press).

Karolina Czerska-Shaw holds a PhD in Sociology and is assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests include migration and integration policies and practices at EU and national levels, local migration governance, as well as issues of belonging in transnational social spaces and international student mobility. She is a researcher in several international projects, including a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action project entitled: EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy, where she studies the development and contestation of EU migration and asylum policies, particularly from the point of view of civil society actors. She is also a work package leader in the PeaceRep project in collaboration with the London School of Economics, focusing on the networks and activities of civil society organisations involved in the mobilisation of humanitarian aid in Poland and peace process in Ukraine. She collaborates with the Multiculturalism and Migration Observatory of the Krakow University of Economics, and is a member of the Jagiellonian Centre for Migration Studies. She is currently involved in building an integration strategy for the Lesser Poland district as well as the city of Krakow.

Senior researcher at CNRS and professor at the Paris School of Economics

Gianni D’Amato is Professor at the University of Neuchâtel, Director of the ‘NCCR – On the move’, and Head of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM). His main foci are addressing citizenship, mobility, populism, and the history of migration. Recent contributions in English include “Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus”, Migration Studies, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 631–649, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad023 (together with Marco Bitschnau), “Politicising immigration in times of crisis: empirical evidence from Switzerland”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1936471 (together with Marco Bitschnau, Leslie Ader and Didier Ruedin), and “The Battle over Rights in Switzerland. Populist Arguments against International Law”, in: Pieter Bevelander and Ruth Wodak (Eds.), Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist, and Global Challenges (259-280). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. (see: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2525-4608)

Fanny D'hondt her PhD focused on how the experience of ethnic discrimination is related to the achievement and school wellbeing of pupils with a migration background in Flanders, Belgium. In this context, she realized a large-scale survey in secondary schools in Flanders. Since 2019, Fanny is coordinator of EdisTools. An research project focused on understanding and addressing ethnic discrimination in education, healthcare, the housing market and the labor market. Her current research is situated in the fields of ethnic relations, ethnic discrimination and sociology of education.