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Hanne Schneider is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the human geography department at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Her research interest include migration studies in Local and Rural contexts as well as European Migration Governace. Before joining the research team at TUC Hanne Schneider worked as a Research Associate at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) after she has gained experience in non-profit project management at Robert-Bosch-Foundation. She received her M.A. in International Migration from the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) in Osnabrück.

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Universität Osnabrück. He studied Anthropology, Musicology, Linguistics and Ethnic Studies at the universities of Hamburg and Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Universität Tübingen. After a two-year research stay at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro he became coordinator of a major European comparative research project at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His major recent publications include “Demographic ‘Megatrends’ and Their Implications” (in: Siirtolaisuus/Migration Journal 3/2018: 26-31); Erfolg nicht vorgesehen. Sozialer Aufstieg in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft – und was ihn so schwer macht (Münster: Waxmann 2018; with C. Lang and A. Pott); “Generation Mix – der Versuch einer Annäherung” (in: M.Hill/E. Yildiz (eds.): Postmigrantische Visionen, Bielefeld: transcript, 129-146); Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers 2016 (edited with Clea Schmidt); “Social Mobility, Habitus and Identity Formation in the Turkish-German Second Generation” (in: New Diversities, Vol. 16, No. 1/2014: 89-105; with Christine Lang); Super-diversity: A New Perspective on Integration, Amsterdam: VU University Press 2013 (with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? Amsterdam University Press 2012 (edited with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie); “Belonging” (in: M. Crul/J. Mollenkopf (eds.): The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States, New York: Russell Sage 2012, 206-32; with Mary Waters, Leo Chavez und Louis de Scipio).

Master's in Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany, 2005 (minors: Psychology and Philosophy) with a thesis on anti-immigrant attitudes in Europe. DPhil at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2009 on the cross-nationally comparable measurement of educational attainment for comparative survey research. A number of recommendations developed in my doctoral thesis were subsequently implemented in the European Social Survey since round 5 (2010) and later also in other international surveys. Post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College (2009-2011). In 2011 I moved back to Germany to start working at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim as scientific coordinator of the new GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology. From 2012 to 2015, I headed the training courses team at GESIS. From 2013 to 2017, I lead the project "Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Surveys (CAMCES)" funded through the Leibniz competition, and subsequently deepened this work within the SERISS project, resulting in the surveycodings.org service. In 2015 I moved to the department Survey Design and Methodology (SDM). Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Trinity Term 2015. From 2018 to 2024, I am heading the contribution by GESIS to the international PIAAC consortium for PIAAC Cycle 2 (data collection in 2022/23) focusing on the background questionnaire. From 2020 to 2023, I also lead a project aiming to improve the comparability of socio-demographic measures across German large-scale surveys in KonsortSWD.de, part of the new National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

Mathis Schnell is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Laboratoire d'études des processus sociaux (LAPS) and is associated with the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) – on the move. He investigates how institutions in Western Europe assess asylum claims based on the persecution due to sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI). Using quantitative and qualitative approaches, he investigates what reasonings, frames and narratives are to be found in the related institutional practices. Additionally, he focuses on the question of how the digitalisation of the asylum systems influences the assessments of SOGI-related cases.

Judith is a geographer and researcher at the Institute of Urban and Regional Research (ISR), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Judith does research on socio-spatial inequalities, urban studies, migration studies, spatial theory and spatial analysis etc.

Dr. Irene Schöfberger is a data and research officer at IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin. Prior to joining GMDAC, she has worked in research and policy advice in several countries, including Senegal, Chile, Germany, France and Belgium. She has conducted research on EU-Africa migration and development policies and on transnational livelihoods at the German Development Institute (DIE) and at the University of Freiburg. She has also worked for the European Parliament and the International Council for Science (ISC). She holds a PhD. in Human Geography from the University of Freiburg, as well as an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Bologna.

Prof.dr. P.W.A. (Peter) Scholten is Professor in the Governance of Migration and Diversity at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His research focuses on amongst others on the governance of migration and migration-related diversity, multi-level governance, comparative public policy, and the relationship between knowledge and power in the field of migration. Peter is director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic research network on migration, integration and social cohesion. Furthermore, he is editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) and associated editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Also, he is coordinator of the master Governance of Migration and Diversity (a cooperation of Leiden University, Delft University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam), coordinator of the Erasmus Migration & Diversity Institute (EMDI), and external collaborator at the Migration Policy Centre in EUI Florence.

Karen Schönwälder is a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of
Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, and an affiliated professor at Göttingen University. She has published widely on immigrant policies in Germany and the UK, political
incorporation of immigrants, urban diversity, and organisations. Recent projects investigate diversity assent and the response of advocacy organisations to immigration.