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Marta Jaroszewicz, assistant professor at the Centre of Migration Research sas a leader of the NCN-funded project “Securitisation (de-securitisation) of migration on the example of Ukrainian migration to Poland and internal migration in Ukraine”. In the past long-term researcher at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) where among others she held a position of the senior research fellow, head of department, and project’s team leader. In 2017-2019 she was a team leader in a Horizon 2020-financed project “EU-STRAT (The EU and Eastern Partnership Countries: An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment”. She defended her PhD in 2008. Previously worked also for the International Organization for Migration (Mission in Ukraine) as a project manager, and seconded national expert at the European Commission (Directorate General Neighborhood). Her research interests include: links between migration and security, policies’ diffusion, impact of external actors on the national policies, migration policies in the EU’s eastern neighborhood and at the Eurasian area.

Alina Jašina-Schäfer is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the department of Cultural Anthropology and
European Ethnology, University of Mainz. She studied Central and East European Studies at the
University of Glasgow, International Relations at the Central European University in Budapest and holds a
PhD in Cultural Studies from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. In the past Alina has published on
topics such as exclusion, belonging and home, horizontal citizenship, gendered experiences of work,
epistemic biases and knowledge production. In her current research project, she is exploring the changing
systems of value around human worth in the context of post-Soviet migration to Germany.

I am a social and organizational psychologist who specialize in quantitative research. My research focus is a informal capitals of migrants. For me migration is human enrichment experience. The situation of change and necessity to find oneself in an uncertain situation builds the migrants' capitals. During my time off you will probably find me listening to the good music. I really enjoy cooperation with others - so if you are looking to do a project, contact me.

Professor of Geography at the University of Turku. Former director of research consortium URMI (Urbanization, Mobilities and Immigration, www.urmi.fi). Recently conducted research on asylum-related journeys, irregular migration and related processes in the EU, at the border of the EU and in the origin countries. Recent field studies among migrants include Lesvos (Greece), Lampedusa (Italy), Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany), Finland, Jordan, Turkey, Iran.

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil. and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

Leonie is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), UvA. Her doctoral research focuses on the making of Senegalese migrant smuggling governance in the context of externalized EU-ropean migration control. Prior to starting her PhD Leonie has worked as a project researcher on migration governance in West Africa at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Brussels/UNU-Cris. As part of this work she conducted research in Ghana, Niger, and Senegal. She has also worked as Communication Officer at the European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). Leonie holds a MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen.