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Ph.D. Candidate in International Strategic Studies at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
Former Visiting Scholar at Brock University's Political Science Department (Ontario, Canada).

Dr Maria Teresa Ferazzoli is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield with an interdisciplinary and multifaceted work experience as practitioner and academic.
Maria Teresa is working on the following research projects:

“Everyday Bordering’ in the UK: The impact on social care practitioners and the migrant families with whom they work”, led by Dr Julie Walsh. This study examines the intersections of place, immigration policy, migrant families everyday lives and social care practice.

“MIMY: EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions” – EU Horizon 2020 fund project . The project takes an innovative multi-method approach which places young migrants at the centre of knowledge creation about their resilience, resistance and integration, and the impact of intersecting social inequalities.

In previous role she has worked on research projects that explore particularly sensitive subjects, including the role of faith-based organisations in anti-trafficking, and parent’s experiences of miscarriage, stillbirth and unexplained neonatal death.

Maria Teresa was awarded her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2019 with the thesis “The formation of deinstitutionalization discourses in Italy and England: a cross-national archaeological study”. Before commencing her PhD studies at Sheffield she completed a Masters’ degree in Psychology at “La Sapienza” University of Rome and she worked as a project coordinator and research with the Newark branch of the national mental health charity Mind.

Dr. Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo is a full time researcher at the Institute of
Legal Research of UNAM and Coordinator of the National Diversities Laboratory of
UNAM and of the institutional research track: Rights, Migrations and Mobilities. In
2021 she received the National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars 2021 in
the area of social science research. She coordinates the Diploma “Gender and Equality
Policies” and is academic coordinator of the Diploma “International Law for Refugees
and International Protection in Mexico” at UNAM. She is a researcher at CAMINAR
(Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas)
and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI - 1). Specialist in gender and
migration, immigration detention, bureaucracies, gender violence and womens
autonomy. She recently published the article Immigration Detention. the Patriarchal State and the Politics of Disgust in the Hands of Street-level Bureaucrats https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/download/immigration-detention-the-pat…

PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California. His lines of research are youth, public space, digital cultures, and citizenship.

Mariña Fernández-Reino (PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) is a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Migration Observatory. She is currently the PI of a research project investigating migrants’ lived experiences of the UK immigration system, for which she is recruiting online survey respondents using Meta advertisements. She also leads two work packages within the EqualStrength project (“Cumulative discrimination and prejudice against marginalised groups in Europe”), funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

Throughout her academic career, she has investigated a variety of research topics related to migration and ethnic inequalities, including the discrimination of Latinos and Muslim minorities, public opinion towards migration, educational inequalities in Spain and the UK, relationships in migrant families, selectivity of migration inflows, and the labour market integration of migrant workers. She has published in journals such as European Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Oxford Review of Economic Policy, among others. Within her role at the Migration Observatory, she has authored over twenty briefings and reports on migrants’ integration, immigration policy and public attitudes towards migration.

Belén Fernández Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of A Coruña, Spain. She is member of the Research Team in Sociology of International Migrations (ESOMI). Her main lines of research are migration policies, local integration policies, and comparative policies of immigration. She did research stays at the University of California-San Diego, University of Lisbon, University of Sheffield (UK), University of Poitiers (France) and University of California-Berkeley.

Nuno joined the University of Sussex as a Professor of Law in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool (2012-2016) and Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2006-2012). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University (China) and the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), as well as a guest scholar at the University of Girona (Spain) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden).

Nuno did his undergraduate law studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and University of Bologna (Italy), and is a member of the Portuguese Bar. He worked as a legal consultant at the Legal Affairs and Litigation Department of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), and as a research fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (ZERP) (Germany). He carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Bremen, where he obtained his Dr. jur. title (summa cum laude).

Nuno is a Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant recipient, leading the project SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum (2016-2020), and co-director of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research.