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Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and works at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR), University of Salzburg, as a Senior Scientist since 2011. He is also member of the Migration and Mobility Research (MMG) Group at the University of Salzburg. At the CEPR he was also the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project "Social Justice and Child Poverty", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), from 2014 to 2017. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both with Palgrave Macmillan). Gottfried is co-founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie [Journal for Practical Philosophy] and of the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty and of the Book Series Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven [Childhood - Education - Upbringing. Philosophical Perspectives], published by J.B. Metzler. He is also associate editor of Palgrave Communications.

Together with Johannes Drerup, Gottfried is the coordinator of the Netzwerk Philosophie der Kindheit [Network Philosophy of Childhood] - a platform for philosophers and and interested reserachers working on questions of philosophy and childhood.

Furthermore, Gottfried has reviewed papers for several international journals including Journal of Poverty, Journal of Global Ethics, International Theory, Ethical Perspectives, and Review of International Studies.

Research Professor at Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, also associated with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) in Brighton, UK. Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Co-Director of the INTEGRIM-Lab. PhD in Migration Studies (2018, University of Sussex) and degrees in Political Science and Sociology (University of Innsbruck). Previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science of the University of Vienna (project REvolTURN). My research focusses on the politics, practices, and challenges of governing international migration across different political and administrative levels, geographical contexts, and institutional settings. From an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, I study legal frameworks, everyday practices of policy implementation, and ways in which migrants perceive, use, bend, or resist the rules and restrictions imposed on their mobility and “integration”.

Helge Schwiertz is a postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at Universität Hamburg and corresponding member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. His key research areas are social and political theory, theories of radical democracy, citizenship, and solidarity, social movements and urban protests, racism and migration. He leads the international research project "Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe »From Below«: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies" and Transnational Networks" [ECSEuro] and is a co-editor of "movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies".

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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).

Sarah Scuzzarello (PhD Lund University) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and a researcher at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex (UK). Her current research focuses on gender and migration, and she adopts an intersectional lens to understand how sexuality, class and race shape migrants' experiences of mobility and settlement. Sarah’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing from politics, sociology and political psychology.