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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).

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.

I am currently a Phd Candidate on Migration and Globalisation and my research project is on return and reintegration between Europe and Nigeria.
I a have also previously worked many years in various UN and other international organisations on crime -related and human rights issues such as human trafficking and smuggling in West and East Africa and Europe .
My academic background is in Criminology and Psychology.

Dr. Susanne U. Schultz is as a Project Manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, in “Making fair migration a reality,” where she focuses on aspects of legal migration, global skills partnerships and migration cooperation with a particular view on (West) African countries. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Bielefeld University on (forced) return migration to Mali. She has published on deportation, masculinities, EU externalization, West African migration, training and youth. From 2009 to 2013, she worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Switzerland, Turkey and Germany.

I am a qualitative researcher. My main area of expertise is migrant political participation. More recently, I started focussing on migrant entrepreneurship and in 2019 I conducted a small study on Greek and Italian businesses operating in the restaurant industry in the North-West of England. I would be interested in projects on political transnationalism, migrant and ethnic entrepreneurship, professional migration and migrants' cultural heritage (with a focus on food).

Markéta Seidlová is researcher in the field of migration and intercultural studies. Her work focuses on immigration and integration policies, integration of immigrants, immigrant insertion in the labour market and spatial distribution of immigrants. Most of her work is based on comparative analysis of studied cities and/or regions/countries, like between France and the Great Britain or France and Canada.

I currently work at Centre Maurice Halbwachs (École Normale Supérieure) as a 'Chercheuse Contractuelle'. I am also one of the Editorial Managers at 'Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism'. I graduated with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. My PhD thesis explored the different forms of Kurdishness in Turkey with regards to place, the language use, and state rhetoric. My book based on this thesis (Customized Forms of Kurdishness in Turkey: State Rhetoric, Locality, and Language Use) was published in 2018 by Lexington Books. My postdoctoral research aims to unpack how whiteness is (re-)constructed intersectionally within the second-generation immigrants from Turkey. My research interests are belonging, intersectionality, transnationalism, and Turkey. I was also a Young Visiting Researcher funded by the Campus France Fellowship at Centre Nantais de Sociologie and a Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen in Germany. To date, I have taught various courses in Sociology at all levels at Istanbul Okan University and the University of Edinburgh.

I'm a PhD student at Trent University, Canada with a research focus on postpartum experiences of Ghanaian immigrant women moms in Ontario. I depart from damage- and deficit-based approaches, conscientizing the new moms to draw on the strength of their diasporic communities and the wisdom of traditional Ghanaian practices to improve their postpartum mental health experiences. My research interest areas are migrant women's health, gender and labour migration, and migration policy development. I hold MSc. Global Health from Uppsala University (Sweden), M.A. Social Protection from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and BSc. Physiotherapy from University of Ghana. My past research explored the labour market experiences of Ghanaian family migrant women in Germany.