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Peter is research manager at the Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA) at the university of Leuven and responsible for the migration & integration research unit. His main research domains are labour market integration of migrants, integration policies and (migrant) mentoring.

Félicien de Heusch joined the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liège in September 2018 as a PhD candidate within the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe (MiTSoPro)”, under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Michel Lafleur. Before joining the CEDEM, he completed a double MA degree in Immigration Studies at the University of Liège and the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, as well as a BA in Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. His PhD thesis focuses on Senegalese migrants' transnational engagement around death in Europe. His further research interests include: migration routes, street vending, social movements and Haitian migrations. He conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Spain and Belgium.

Researcher in Experimental Pedagogy and Research Methods in Education. Laboratory of Educational Research for Social Innovation and Cooperation (LABER). Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literature and Psychology. University of Florence (Italy). I deal with human mobility and migration potential, migration studies and drivers of migration, intercultural education, social and adult education, human development and capability approach, social economy, international and development cooperation policies with research activities in Italy and abroad.

Sociologist and epidemiologist with a research focus on refugee children's transition to adulthood in Denmark and other countries, organised around the themes of education, employment and health. Most of my work is quantitative and comparative, exploring how refugee children's life courses differ across countries to contribute to our understanding of how the post-settlement context shapes refugee children's life chances.

Emellin is a Licensed Lawyer, a Researcher at the Research & Development Centre on Law and Society (CEDIS, NOVA School of Law) and a PhD Candidate at NOVA School of Law, whose research aims to analyse how security concerns shape Migration Law in the European Union.

In addition, Emellin is a member of the "International Migration and International Law Committee" of the International Law Association, representing the Portuguese Society of International Law, and she is part of the MoveS network, as a national expert (Portugal) in intra-EU mobility. Since February 2022, she has been on the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA, formerly EASO) List of Experts.

Emellin is the Co-founder and Legal Consultant of the NOVA Asylum Policy Lab (NOVA FCSH) and the Co-founder of the NOVA Refugee Clinic - Legal Clinic, as well as a member of the Observatory of Personal Data Protection (NOVA School of Law), where she is in charge of the "Digital Borders" Research Line activities.

Her research interests focus on migration, asylum, databases for third-country nationals, security and border control. She has participated in several research projects on voluntary and forced migration. She has published mainly on the relationship between migration and security, whether in physical spaces (borders, hotspots and detention centres) or in digital environments (information systems and databases).

Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, Ph.D.,
° Full Professor of Social Representations and Communication with laboratory of New Media and Web-Marketing at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology - “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy.
° Founder (since 1993) ,Co-ordinator (since its implementation in 1996) and Director of the Eu-approved European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication (since the designation in 2010 as Honorary Director of Serge Moscovici, 1st former Director) (http://www.europhd.eu);
° Founder and Director of the EU-approved SoReCom THEmatic NETwork of excellence (http://www.europhd.net/sorecomthenet-summary), she has been the Director of the European/International Joint Ph.D. on SR&C Research Centre and Multimedia Lab (since 1996 until 31-12-2020).
• Scientific Leader of 73 hyper-competitive projects at international and national level won and lead since 1992: http://www.europhd.net/accreditation-four-institutional-scenarios

Among other awards:
o in 2010 awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University A.I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania
o in 2011 awarded a Fulbright Schuman Grant by the Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg
o in 2018 awarded the title Emeritus Professor (Profesora Emérita) of the Universitdad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
o in 2019 awarded the role as “adjunct professor” of the University of Ottawa (Canada) until 2025.

• Invited visiting professor by many Universities in Europe, USA, Canada, Latino America, Africa, Indonesia and China and as an international expert to evaluate research programmes by many funding Institutions in several countries worldwide.
• Member of many International Scientific Associations and invited member of the editorial board of numerous journals in social sciences.

° Author of more than 750 scientific contributions, including invited Key lectures in international conferences and publications in the supra-disciplinary field of Social Sciences inspired by her “modeling” paradigmatic approach to Social Representations and Communication, based on integrative multi-theoretical and pluri-methodological research designs in a variety of thematic areas European historical capitals and tourism; web-marketing and new media; national, supra-national, place identity; migration; advertising; social memory, emotions; family relationships; stock market; madness; psychoanalysis in the era of Facebook, social movements and social media. One of her book in the field is entitled Social Representations in the Social Arena (Routledge, 2013).
Other publications concern distinct forms of internationalization of doctoral education and innovative ICT applied to Higher Education and Digital Libraries. related to her expertise/experience achieved as founder and director of the European/International Joint PhD in Social Representations and Communication and as creator and developer of the SoReCom”A.S. de Rosa” @-library: the most worldwide comprehensive digital library and multi-purpose innovative web-platform, integrating scientific documentation, networking and research training aimed at the meta-theoretical analysis of the whole scientific production in the supra-disciplinary field of Social Representations and Communication.

° In the field of migration studies prof. de Rosa is the project leader of a wide research program - launched in 2017 - on migratory experiences and discourse, articulated in:
a. “field” studies aimed at investigating multiple experiential dimensions of migrants/refugees and second generation of immigrants, caseworkers and members of the host communities;
b. “multi-media” studies aimed at investigating the polarization in the media of social representations and attitudes according to the different ideological positions and identity affiliations, which guide the processes of social inclusion/exclusion towards migrants. In particular the media studies are aimed at reconstructing the “multi-voices” and “multi-agents” discourses about the contemporary migratory phenomenon:
b.1) the scientific discourse (by experts) analysing the international scientific literature, inspired by the social representations theory and other theories in social sciences;
b.2) the political-institutional discourse driven by or leading the institutional policies at national and supranational level (by policy makers, political leaders, institutions, NGO, etc.);
b.3) the discourse by “journalists” in the Italian and international online press of different political orientation and broadcast;
b.4) the communication “for” and “among” the citizens in various scenarios of the social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube).

In July 2020 the Canadian SSHRC has approved the joint project led by Lilian Negura (u-Ottawa, Canada) and Annamaria Silvana de Rosa (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) entitled ""Social representations of immigrants from multi-voice and multi-agent institutional-policies-driven discourses and their echoes in the media: a comparative analysis between Canada and Italy.”: an extension of part of the wider research program launched in Italy in 2017 involving Master students who attended the course "Social Representations and Communication with laboratory of New Media and Web-Marketing" for three academic years (2017-18; 2018-19; 2019-20) at Sapienza University.

Contact e-mail: annamaria.derosa@fondazione.uniroma1.it

I am a doctoral researcher investigating the mobilisations of South Asian diaspora in the UK. My work aims to explain why and how migrants (and their descendents) unite through civil society, media, activtist and development organisations or collectives. In doing so, I also address the conditions where unification is fragmented or strained. And lastly, I look to the impacts of diaspora mobilisations, at both the transnational and local levels.