Jane Freedman is Professor at the Université Paris 8 and a director of the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA). Her research focuses on gender and migration with a particular attention to the production of gendered and racialised forms of violence in the context of migration. Her publications include Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Routledge, 2017); Gender-based Violence in Migration : Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Marie Mallet-Garcia is a researcher at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include immigrants’ integration into the host society through access to and use of social services. She is particularly interested in the role of the local context in the inclusion process of migrants with precarious legal status.
Jérémy Mandin is a PhD in anthropology and in Social Sciences, affiliated to the CEDEM since 2011. As a researcher, he collaborated to several projects focusing on urban dynamics, integration and social cohesion. From 2015 to 2020, Jérémy Mandin worked as a PhD student within the “Redefining Home” project (KULeuven, ULiège, UVA). He focused on the emigration practices of young Europeans of Maghrebi background toward Montreal (Canada). This work resulted in the defense of his PhD thesis in 2021. From 2018 to 2020, Jérémy Mandin joined the MITSOPRO project (ULiège) as a country expert for Belgium. Within this project, he also conducted a case study on the migration of French disabled people to Belgium. Jérémy Mandin is currently working on the BBox research (ULiège, KULeuven, Saint-Louis University).
His current research interests include the relation between migration and aspirations, the emigration dynamics and the international mobility policies in Belgium. He also published about the extreme right movements in Italy.
Dr. Elsa Mescoli is affiliated to the CEDEM since 2011. She is currently post-doctoral researcher and assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, where she teaches courses related to migration and intercultural issues. She holds a PhD Degree in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Liege (in co-tutorship with the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy) with a thesis on the culinary practices of Moroccan women living in Milan (Italy). She conducted extensive ethnographic research in the domain of migration studies both in Europe and outside, with a particular focus on migrants’ cultural practices. She holds a MA in Anthropology and a BA in Intercultural communication from the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). Her research interests include : food and migration, artistic practices of migrants, gender issues, discrimination of Muslims, public opinion and citizens’ initiatives on refugees and asylum seekers, socio-cultural practices of undocumented migrants, policies and practices of integration of newcomers.
Caitlin Patler is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Davis, where she is a faculty affiliate of the Global Migration Center and Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, and an Advisory Committee member to the Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement.
Dr. Patler’s multi-methodological research addresses the reproduction of inequality in the U.S. through an examination of immigration and criminal laws, legal statuses, and law enforcement institutions as drivers of socioeconomic and health disparities. Dr. Patler also studies the spillover and intergenerational consequences of legal vulnerability for children’s wellbeing.
Santiago Pérez-Nievasis Professor in the Political Science and International Relations Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). His research interests include political parties and electoral behaviour with a focus on multilevel contexts, and the electoral behaviour and political representation of immigrant-origin minorities. On these topics, he has published articles in scientific journals (South European Society and Politics, American Behavioral Scientist, Revista de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Migraciones, among others) as well as chapters in collective books.
Nora Ratzmann joined the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in 2020, first as a Research Fellow in the Department Conflict and Consensus ; since July 2022, she is leading several qualitative research projects on State Support and Integration of Refugees from Ukraine in Germany, Department Integration, on the perspectives and needs of recently arrived Ukrainians regarding German state-funded social services, and coordinates the international research network « Forced Migrants from Ukraine in Transnational Europe ». From 2015 to 2019, her doctoral research at the LSE’s International Institute for Inequality investigated barriers to accessing German basic social security for EU citizens from the perspectives of internal migration control and institutional discrimination.
Prof. Dr. Antje Röder is Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Previously she was Assistant Professor for Migration and Quantitative Methods at Trinity College Dublin (2011–2015) and Professor of Sociology (Research Methods) at TU Chemnitz (2015–16). She has spent over a decade researching socio-cultural and structural integration processes amongst first and second generation immigrants in Europe, and is particularly interested in innovative research methods for migrant and ethnic minorities. She has conducted several, often cross-nationally, comparative research projects that investigate the interaction of host, origin, community and individual characteristics for socio-cultural integration. She is a founding member of the research network Ifris (Researching refugee integration, xenophobia and right wing extremism in Saxony) and is a member of the COST ETHMIGSURVEYDATA and the IMISCOE network.
Nina Sahraoui is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA, CNRS) conducting the project CYBERGEN (2021–2022). Her research is situated at the crossroads of diaspora, migration, gender and heath studies. Previously, Nina was a Post-doctoral Researcher at CRESPPA within the project VIO-GEN-MIG on gendered based violence in migration contexts and a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the European University Institute for three years within the EU Border Care project. Nina completed her PhD at London Metropolitan University supported by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship and published her doctoral research with Palgrave Macmillan under the title Racialised Care Workers and European Older-Age Care. From Care Labour to Care Ethics (2019). Among her recent publications are the edited volumes Gender-Based Violence in Migration : Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches, published with Palgrave (2022), Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (2022) with Bristol University Press, Borders Across Healthcare published with Berghan Books (2020). Nina also published her research in JEMS, Society and Space, Social Policy and Society and Social Science and Medicine, among others.