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PhD Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
#Rural-Urban Migration Governance #South Asia migration #International Migration Governance

Dirk Jacobs (°1971) is full professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is affiliated to the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Institut de Sociologie. His main research topics are sociology of education and migration and integration policies.

He is the former director of GERME and currently director of EBxl, the research network for Brussels Studies at ULB.

Jacobs studied sociology at Ghent University and obtained his PhD in social sciences at Utrecht University in 1998. He is affiliated to ULB since 2004 and was appointed full professor in 2012. He has been an invited professor at Amsterdam University (UvA), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven et Vesalius College (VUB).

In 2011 he received an ERC Grant for the project “Equal opportunities for migrant youth in educational systems with high levels of social and ethnic segregation – assessing the impact of school team resources”.

He was one of the founding members of the G1000. He is a board member of asbl Pouvoir Organisateur Pluriel (les écoles plurielles) and of Foyer in Molenbeek.

I'm a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, where I’m exploring the subjects of socio-economic geography and spatial planning.
My research interests are connected with mobility, migration studies, multilocality, social geography and spatial management.

My experiences include:
- research in a field of social and economic geography and spatial planning both as a part of a team and as a project manager,
- qualitative and quantitative research conducted in European Countries (mostly Germany, United Kingdom and Poland) and North America
- reviews of scientific articles,
- evaluation of Polish and international scientific projects,
- expertise for local government and private sector (spatial management, housing policy, resilience, migration)
- lectures at Universities (Poland and Germany

My work is located at the intersection of critical urban research, reflexive migration studies and STS. I am particularly interested in how knowledge, power and policies are interconnected in the field of migration studies, what space(s) they produce and to what extent they generate inequalities. I am investigating this using the example of a Berlin policy programme "BENN Berlin develops new neighbourhoods".

I work at the Geography Department of the HU Berlin as a research assistant, PhD student, and lecturer. In addition, I have been working in the research project "MAPURBAN" since April 2021 as a research coordinator in the working group "Globalisation, Transformation, Gender" at the FU Berlin. I am also associated with the research training group of the SFB 1265 "Re-figuration of spaces" . I studied geography, sociology and urban and regional planning in Berlin, Lund (Sweden) and Melbourne (Australia).

Areej Jamal is a PhD researcher at the University College London, Social Research Institute. Her research focusses on South Asian migrants living in Saudi Arabia.

I am currently (2020) working at the Centre of Migration Research as a head of Economics of Migration Research Unit. Previously I was working in a project "The impact of wealth formation by economic migrants on their mobility and integration: Polish migrants in countries of the European Community and Australia", where we studied how owning certain assets e.g. real estate influences Poles' mobility.

I graduated from the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, in 2008 I defended MA dissertation on properties of income inequality measures. In 2010 I obtained BA at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw. I graduated from the doctoral program at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, where in 2016 I defended my doctoral thesis entitled “Income inequality measures and individual evaluations of income inequality”.

Kristýna Janurová is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University and a researcher at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs in Prague. She conducts research in international migration, family and social policy. In the migration field, she specializes in migrant transnationalism, belonging, migrant and returnee civic engagement, including political participation, diaspora-state relations and diaspora policy analysis.