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PhD research student at The University of York, UK. Researching Latvian EU workers in the North West of the UK. EU migration vis-à-vis Brexit.
Degree: Plymouth University. Masters: Exeter University. PGCE Post Compulsory Education and Training. QTS. Currently a PhD research student. Member of the British Sociological Association; The BSA Bourdieu Study Group; the European Sociology Association and the Political Studies Association. Skills include: designing, applying and analysing qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Soft ware use: NVivo and SPSS.

Jerome Krase, Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York is an activist-scholar who works wih public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. He received his Bachelor’s Degree at Indiana University and his PhD at New York University. He researches, lectures, writes and photographs about urban life and culture globally. A sample of his books are Self and Community in the City (1982), Ethnicity and Machine Politics with Charles LaCerra (1992), Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society, edited with Judith N. DeSena (1994), Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005) and Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. (2006) edited with Ray Hutchison, Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (2012), Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn with Judith N. DeSena (2016), and Diversity in Local Contexts, edited with Zdenek Uhurek 2017. He co-edits Urbanities and serves on the editorial boards of Visual Studies, and the Journal of Video Ethnography. Professor Krase is an officer of ProBonoDesign Inc, and active in the American, European, and International Sociological Associations, Commission on Urban Anthropology IUAES, American Italian Historical Association, International Urban Symposium, H-NET Humanities on Line, International Visual Sociology Association, Polish American Historical Association, and Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America.

Main research interests: migration studies, migration policies and practices, social and cultural history, social relationships, integration-assimilation, ethnic and social identity, oral history, migrants' correspondence and communication systems, human rights. Currently working on Russian emigration in Yugoslavia (1918-1941). Using interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodology, ranging from oral history to analyses of correspondence and auto/biographic texts.

Anna Krasteva is doctor honoris causa of University of Lille, France, president of the ‘Policy and Citizens’s Observatory: Migration, Digitalization, Climate’, professor of political sciences and director of CERMES/New Bulgarian University. Her main fields of research and teaching are migration policies and politics; border politics; crisis studies; far-right populism; civic mobilisations and citizenship. Some of her last publications are: ‘Citizens’ activism and solidarity movements. Contending with populism’ (co-ed, Palgrave), ‘Bulgarian migration paradox’, ‘Thinking under quarantine’, ’If Borders Did Not Exist, Euroscepticism Would Have Invented Them, or on Post-Communist Re/De/Re/Bordering in Bulgaria’. She teaches at international MA programs on migration and human rights at the University of Sarajevo & University of Bologna and the University of Athens. A. Krasteva is editor-in chief- of the journal Southeastern Europe (Brill | Schöningh), president and member of numerous international scientific boards. She takes part in numerous European projects (Horizon2020, Erasmus+, Europe for citizens, etc.).

Ulrike Krause is Junior Professor for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and the Institute for Social Science, Osnabrück University as well as affiliated Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is PI of the projects Women, Forced Migration – and Peace? (funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research) and Global Refugee Protection and Local Refugee Engagement (funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation).

Previously, she worked at the IFHV, Ruhr University Bochum and the Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University. She recieved her doctorate in 2012 with her dissertation about development-oriented refugee assistance from the Inistitute of Political Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.

With a focus on Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, her teaching and research interests are in the areas of humanitarian refugee protection, conflict displacement nexus, resilience, gender as well as sexual and gender-based violence. Her regional focus is on global developments as well as Africa, in particular East Africa. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the German Journal for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, and board member of the German Network Forced Migration Research (Netzwerk Fluchtforschung). She has also founded and currently co-leads the German Forced Migration Research Blog (FluchtforschungsBlog) as a part of the German Network Forced Migration Research. In the past, she also worked for international organizations such as UNICEF, GIZ and World Vision in refugee assistance, human rights and gender mainstreaming in Uganda, Germany and other countries.

PhD candidate in the discipline of political science, researcher, volunteer and freelance journalist, former managing editor of the Polish monthly "Wszystko Co Najważniejsze". Graduate with master degree in political science, economy and number of courses related to political science, social anthropology and journalism, including those offered by the University of London, Sciences Po, MITx and Collège d'Europe in Natolin. Holder of the Executive Diploma in the art of Diplomacy (EDAD) in International Security and Certificate in Advanced English from Cambridge Assessment English. Vice-representative of the IMISCOE PhD Network Board and volunteer at the association "Schools for Peace".

I am currently conducting research on refugee hybrid identity at Nakivale Refugee Settlement. I've been working in Nakivale settlement since 2019 and so far I focused among others on refugee agency during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have presented the results of my research both in scientific and popular science journals, as well as at scientific conferences, including the Conference of the Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the conference of the Migration Section of the Polish Sociological Society or during the International Scientific and Technical Conference "Maritime Technologies for Defense and Security".

2012 - 2016 junior researcher at the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology, Vienna

2016 - 2022 praedoc University Assistant at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna