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Manuel Insberg is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Anthropology. In his dissertation project, supervised by Prof. Sabine Strasser, he focuses on forms and consequences of violence in refugee reception and settlement. Based on ethnographic research in Norway, he explores causes and consequences of continuing precarity, dependence and exclusion which refugees experience regardless of their legal protection status.

Manuel Insberg studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Zürich, Maynooth and Vienna. He graduated from the international Masters programme “CREOLE - Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes“ and obtained his degree from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, in 2018.

Nahikari Irastorza (PhD in Humanities, University of Deusto, Spain) is a senior researcher at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare of Malmö University. Her research interests include international migration and integration, immigrants’ participation in the labor market, migration policies, mixed marriages and their children. Before moving to Sweden as a Willy Brandt research fellow (2016-2021), she held postdoctoral positions, including a Marie Curie, at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is currently working on two H2020 projects that look at refugee-receiving community relations (FOCUS, 2019-2022) and immigrant integration, as a community making process, in small and medium-size towns and rural areas (Whole-COMM, 2021-2023).

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Global Politics and Security Programme at Utrikespolitiska Institutet. My work lies at the intersection of global migration governance and public policy, focusing on the political consequences of forced migration.

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Prior to pursuing my PhD, I was working as a Research Assistant at the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoç). I received my MA diploma in International Affairs from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, and my BA diploma in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.