Greta Albertari is a second year PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, VU. Her research focuses on the codification of European asylum law based on the practices experimented in external Member States such as Italy and Greece, with a special focus on the hotspot approach, screening procedures, border procedures and detention. Prior to starting her PhD, Greta worked for a few years as legal consultant for asylum seekers in Greece and Italy, as well as on a project focused on Italian and European practices of border externalization.

Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society.

Haqqi Bahram is a PhD candidate in Ethnic and Migration Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. His research explores statelessness and forced migration with focus on identity and temporality.

Matteo Bottero is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen and has held academic positions at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute (EUI), the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, and the Institute for Labour Law at KU Leuven. Dr. Bottero has been a lecturer in EU Law, Advanced EU Constitutional Law, and European and International Human Rights Law. He has authored numerous publications on EU law and policy, labour mobility, and migration. Additionally, he has collaborated with the European Labour Authority (ELA) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Gianna Eckert is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol (School of Law) with research interests across migration and human rights law. Her research explores the laws regulating forced removals in the UK and Germany through the lens of ‘legal cultures’.

Pauline Endres de Oliveira is a Professor of Law and Migration at Humboldt University Berlin. She is head of the department of Law and Migration at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research, an Interdisciplinary Center at Humboldt University. She also coordinates and supports the legal training of the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin. Her research focuses on the international and EU law aspects of migration law and international human rights protection.

Nuno joined the University of Sussex as a Professor of Law in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool (2012-2016) and Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2006-2012). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University (China) and the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), as well as a guest scholar at the University of Girona (Spain) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden). Nuno did his undergraduate law studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and University of Bologna (Italy), and is a member of the Portuguese Bar. He worked as a legal consultant at the Legal Affairs and Litigation Department of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), and as a research fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (ZERP) (Germany). He carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Bremen, where he obtained his Dr. jur. title (summa cum laude). Nuno has been a Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant recipient, leading the project SOGICA – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum (2016-2020, www.sogica.org), and the Sussex lead in the project TRAFIG – Transnational Figurations of Displacement (2019-2022, www.trafig.eu). He is currently the principal investigator in the project NQIfFM – Negotiating Queer Identities Following Forced Migration (2022-2024, https://iranqueerefugee.net/), and co-editor of the Queer Judgments Project (https://www.queerjudgments.org/).

Nina Fokkink is a PhD student at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law. Her research focuses on the role of emotion in proceedings on marriages of convenience.

Full-tenured researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Researcher (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas -CONICET, Argentina). Adjunct professor (tenure track) of the Department of International Politics at the University of Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires). Ph.D. in International Law and, Msc in International Relations. Principal Investigator for 2023-2024 of two projects: “Political-Legal Keys of Human Mobility. Borders, Population, Sovereignty and the Productive Role of States” (University of Mar del Plata) and “Mapping out the performance of Federal Judiciary in migration matters and its impact in migrant and refugees’ access to rights in Argentina” (CONICET). 2023 FFTV Fellow Researcher at the Centre of Human Rights (CRHEN), Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany).

Enrico Gargiulo (PhD in Sociology and Social Research) is Associate professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna since 2019. His main research interests deal with Sociological Theory, Migrations, Citizenship, Territorial memberships, Status borders, Police knowledge, Social policy. He is the author of several books – including Appartenenze precarie. La residenza tra inclusione ed esclusione (Utet, 2019) Invisible Borders. Administrative Barriers and Citizenship in the Italian Municipalities (Palgrave, 2021) and Protocols as a Tool for Government – as well as published articles and book chapters.

Věra Honusková is a founder and a head of the Centre for Migration and Refugee law, where her research group focuses on issues such as temporary protection or sovereignty and human rights. She is a founder of a specialization programme Migration Law at the faculty, where she uses the opportunity to explore teaching not only from a theoretical perspective (courses on Asylum and Refugee Law and Migration Law), but also through various experiential methods such as simulations, legal clinics and internships. She regularly organizes and participates in conferences in the Czech Republic and abroad; and publishes extensively in this fields. Her 20 years of experience in the field of asylum and migration law includes work in NGOs, in an attorney´s office and as a member of a Commission for decision-making in matters of residence of foreigners and the Committee on the Rights of Foreigners of the Government Council for Human Rights. JUDr. Honusková is the Czech representative in the Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe. She is also a member of the International Law Association and the European Society of International Law. Her latest publications include: Honusková, Věra. “European Response to the Mass Influx of People Caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Testing the Limits of International Refugee Law” International and Comparative Law Review, vol.23, no.1, 2023, pp.53-71; Honusková, V. “Humanitarian Smuggling: the Way Forward”. In de Frouville, O., Šturma, P. Vers la Pénalisation du Droit International des Droits de l´Homme? Paris: Pedone. [2022], Grimes, R., Honusková, V., Stege, U. (eds.) Teaching Migration and Refugee Law: Theory and Practice. Routledge. [2022].

Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Her research specialises in EU internal market law, the free movement of persons and EU citizenship. Her monograph from 2020, “EU Citizenship at the Edges of Freedom of Movement” is available through Hart Publishing’s Modern Studies in European Law series.

Sofi Jansson-Keshavarz is a PhD candidate in Welfare Law at Linköping University in Sweden. In her PhD she investigates the implications of temporary legality for access to the right to permanent residency. By looking at how migration regulation intertwined with welfare regulation at the municipal level escapes the national scale of citizenship, the thesis seeks to understand the local variations of mechanisms of access to permanent residency and citizenship in the welfare state of Sweden today as they are regulated and negotiated on a local level through material and temporal conditions tied to housing, work, education, etc. Sofi has a background in Global Development Studies and International Migration and Ethnic Relations and previously has done research on histories of detention practices in Sweden. She has experience of working with reception policies of “unaccompanied children” in different municipalities and has been involved in networks of support for people living in irregularized conditions.

Dr Sandra Mantu is Assistant Professor of migration law at the Centre for Migration Law (CMR) of the Radboud University, the Netherlands. Sandra’s research focuses on EU citizenship and free movement of persons, social rights, the welfare state, nationality law and gender. In 2014, Sandra defended her PhD thesis that dealt with the legal rules and practices of citizenship deprivation in a selection of EU Member States and their link with EU citizenship. She has been involved in several EU funded projects looking at the legal aspects of EU citizenship and EU migration and mobility frameworks. She was key staff member in the CMR’s Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence work programmes (2015-2018; 2018-2021) and main researcher in EXPULCIT a project that focused on the expulsion of EU citizens from host Member States (2016-2018). Sandra is one of the managing editors of the European Journal of Migration and Law.

Marian Max Rütsche studies migration from a social scientific as well as a legal perspective. Having been employed at NGOs, migration law firms as well as academic institutions, his perspective on legal research is rooted within a broad spectrum of political questions and an interest in the subjective experience of human beings on the move.

Thomas McGee is a PhD researcher at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. There, he is focusing on statelessness and nationality issues in the Syrian context. Since 2011, Thomas has served as an expert on cases of stateless Kurds from Syria within European asylum processes. Speaking Arabic and Kurdish, he has also worked on statelessness and nationality issues more widely in the Middle Eastern and diaspora contexts, publishing on the issue in a number of academic and policy publications. His work has featured in the Tilburg Law Review, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration and the Forced Migration Review. Beyond this, Thomas has served in consultant and analyst roles within humanitarian and development programmes, and worked for UNHCR. Thomas is currently an individual member of the European Network on Statelessness and co-coordinator of the recently established MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati).

PhD Student in Intersectoral Innovation about “Organization and consolidation of civil jurisdiction, in the light of similar European experiences, in the field of immigration, international protection and free movement of EU citizens” at the University of Milan. Graduated in Law in 2019 at the University of Milan with a final dissertation on access to the right of asylum. Specialized in foreign law and international protection, she worked with a specialized lawyer in Milan and later at the Territorial Commission for the right of asylum as an Expert in human rights and international protection, nominated by UNHCR. Since 2019 she has been collaborating with the legal sector of ISMU Foundation (Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity), participating in various national and European projects such as the European Migration Network (EMN). During the PhD project, she collaborated with the Specialized Section on Immigration and International Protection of the Court of Milano, to study and analyze the case law of the territorial section.

Marielys Padua Soto is a multilingual lawyer and humanitarian professional with a strong passion for addressing the challenges faced by refugees, migrants, and Indigenous peoples. She is currently completing an MA in Migration and Refugee Studies at The American University in Cairo.

Christine Straehle is professor for practical philosophy. Her research focuses on the ethics of migration, questions of global justice and conceptions of vulnerability and autonomy in moral philosophy. She is editor or co-editor of several volumes, inclduing ‘The Political Philosophy of Refuge’ (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and is editor for the interdisciplinary journal “Global Justice”. Before coming to Hamburg, Straehle was Inaugural Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands where she also held the Chair in Philosophy and Public Affairs.

Christos Tsevas is an Adjunct Lecturer in International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law at Democritus University of Thrace – Law Faculty (Greece) and a Human Rights Officer (Legal Advisor) at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights. He has worked as a Member of the Associate Educational Staff at the Hellenic Open University, as a Project Transition Analyst at IOM/UN Migration, as a UNHCR/ICMC Associate Asylum Expert in Greece, and as a Legal Officer at the Greek Asylum Appeals Committees, designated by the National Commission for Human Rights. He has served as a Consultant at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law for courses of the Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law, as an Academic Coordinator of the Executive Course on Migration for the European Public Law Organization and as a Lecturer at the Greek National School of Public Administration and Local Government. He holds a PhD in Human Rights Law (University of Strasbourg, Democritus University of Thrace). He has teaching experience in International Human Rights Law, International Refugee Law, EU Law and Policies, Constitutional Law, and Data Protection. Christos is an attorney-at-law with expertise in international and European human rights, public, refugee, and migration law.

Dr Zvezda Vankova is associate professor in EU Migration Law at the Law Faculty of Lund University and the principal investigator of the project ‘Refugee protection or cherry picking? Assessing new admission policies for refugees in Europe’ (2023-2027) funded by the Swedish Research Council. The overall focus of her research aims to examine the interface of legal infrastructures pertaining to human mobility and how their enforcement influences the rights and trajectories of people on the move.

Enes Zaimović is a junior lecturer and Ph.D. candidate in international public law who focuses primarily on Refugee law at international level. In his research and Ph.D. project, he deals with cessation clauses incorporated into the Refugee Convention and the question of “temporariness” of protection the Convention affords to its beneficiaries. In his legal practice, he also focuses on refugee and migration law on European and national levels as a junior attorney in a law firm specializing in refugee and migration law in Prague.

Hannah Zaruchas is a PhD candidate at Humboldt University Berlin and a research fellow at the graduate school ‘Dynamic Integration’.