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A political scientist, a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, an affiliate at the Centre of Migration Research, and an assistant researcher at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. His research is focused on migration, integration, and Middle Eastern affairs. He was professionally involved in the integration of refugees between 2008 and 2022. A former human rights observer in the West Bank (oPt) and humanitarian worker in Jordan. He was working on the projects "IMINTEG – in search for models of relations between immigration and integration policies" between 2016 and 2019 and "Foreigners – Varsovians. Diagnosis and Recommendations of Integration Activities" in
2021. He is currently involved in the projects: "ARICA – A Multi-directional Analysis of Refugee/IDP Camp Areas based on HR/VHR Satellite Data" and "Investing in 'Welcoming Spaces' in Europe: Revitalizing Shrinking Areas by Hosting non-EU Migrants".

Dr. Megha Wadhwa is a migration researcher and Japanese and South Asian Studies scholar. She is a Research Associate at Free University of Berlin, and a visiting scholar at Sophia University, Tokyo, which is also her alma mater. Her research passion lies in understanding the similarities and differences in the migration trends of Indians in Japan, Germany and other places around the globe. Her research focuses on identity, ethnicity, race, social class, women, and skills in migration. She is originally from New Delhi and was a resident of Tokyo for about 15 years before she moved to Berlin in 2021. She is the author of the book ‘Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds’ (Routledge:2021). She is also trained in fieldwork filming, and her recent documentaries are ‘Daughters from Afghanistan’ (2019), the 7-minute documentary ‘Indian cooks in Japan’ (2020), and Finding their Niche (Upcoming 2022)

Eline has a background in Political Science and International Relations with a BSc from the University of Tromsø - the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and a MSc from Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). She has also spent some time at the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Eline is interested in the different discourses and practices shaping the field of EUropean external(ized) border management and Frontex's work, including (de)esecuritization, crisis and humanitarianism, among others.

Visiting PhD Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Department of Sociology, March 2020 – September 2020.

Östen Wahlbeck holds a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick, UK (1997) and the Title of Docent in Sociology from the University of Tampere, Finland (2006) . He has worked as Professor of Sociology at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland, Professor of Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and Senior Lecturer in Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published widely in the field of international migration and ethnic relations, including several international monographs, several edited books, and more than 30 international refereed academic articles articles in journals like Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Ethnicities and Mobilities. In addition, he is the author of numerous book chapters published in various languages. His research interests include transnational migration, migrant businesses, refugee studies, and integration policies. He has been the project leader of several large research projects in these areas funded by the Academy of Finland and the European Commission.

Sarah Walker is a critical migration researcher. Her research is underpinned by a social justice ethos and informed by her previous experience working as a support worker with asylum seekers in London, UK. Following a period of postdoctoral research examining the nexus between migration and the climate crisis, within the context of the ClimateOfChange project, she is now working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna funded by the Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholarship. This project builds on her PhD in Sociology, which explored the interaction between migration regimes and young African men, bureaucratically labelled 'unaccompanied minors', who have made the perilous, illegalized journey to Italy. Using the minor as lens, it interrogates the borderwork of race and childhood. Employing qualitative and creative research methods, her work examines the intersections of migration, race, gender and citizenship.

Tongming is a PhD student in sociology and social policy within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in diversity and interdisciplinary. She currently focuses on rural-urban migration, return migration, labour migration and rural tourism. She does research in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Experienced researcher with expertise in the fields of East Asian communities in Europe, education, happiness and multilingualism. I have extensive fieldwork experience in Germany and Japan, as well as mixed method data collection, management and analysis. My works are fully funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Individual Research Grant, 2018-2021) and the European Commission (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, 2021-2023).