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Dr Karen Block is Associate Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Program, Centre for Health Equity, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She is also the Academic Lead of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s research program, Migration and Social Cohesion and Academic Convenor of the associated Interdisciplinary PhD program in Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies..

My research deals with inequalities and processes of inclusion and exclusion in the labor market, with a focus on ethnic differences (differences according to migration background), sometimes in combination with gender and/or differences across socioeconomic groups. It is aimed at better understanding the prevalence and sources of such differences, focusing in particular on the role of attitudes or stereotypes, discrimination, human and social capital, and the cultural and institutional context (e.g. policies or culture at the workplace and/or country level). I have expertise regarding quantitative research methods and data (surveys/experiments/vignettes/meta-analysis/interviews), as well as qualitative research methods (interviews, qualitative content and document analysis).

Jenna Blower is a Ph.D. candidate at York University in the Department of Social Anthropology. Jenna has an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies from the Toronto Metropolitan University. Jenna currently works as a Migration Research Officer for the Migration Research Unit at the International Organization for Migration supporting the Word Migration Report series.

I am a researcher with extensive experience in the field of Political Science and MENA region at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). I hold a BA in Political Science and International Relations (University of Pavia), and a MA in Modern Middle East Studies (Leiden University). My research investigates the coexistence of migration and protest within the same space and time, with particular attention to the individual-level choice between these two types of behavior. I examine reasons, opportunities for mobilization of young Moroccans living in Rabat, Tangier and Nador. I am interested in the impact that local-context factors, can have on the decision to mobilize towards protest and/or migration, or none of them.