University of Bologna, Department of Politics, Institutions and History (UNIBO)
The Department of Politics, Institutions, History of the University of Bologna was set up in 1982 by a group of scholars of the History and Politics Institute of the Faculty of Political Science. Since its creation, the department has put together scholars from different disciplines and backgrounds sharing an interest in the political dimension of contemporary cultural, political and historical processes. By combining different methodologies and competences, historical investigation with political and juridical analyses and by developing a comparative perspective, the Department has made itself known nationally and internationally as a prestigious centre within the field of political sciences and history. These include the history of political thought and political philosophy, political sciences and international relations, national histories and area studies, public law and international law. Many scholars of the Department are engaged with activities, studies and research on the topics of migration, mobility and borders, gender, and networks. Particularly, it is involved in the European projects GeMIC (Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South Europe) and ATACD (A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics).
45 Strada Maggiore, I-40125 Bologna, Italy
Institute web page: www.eng.dpis.unibo.it
Prof. Sandro Mezzadra (senior scholar) is Associate Professor of “History of Political Thought” at the Department of Politics, Institutions, History of the University of Bologna. His research work has focused on the classical modern European political philosophy (especially on Hobbes, Spinoza and Marx), on the history of political, social, and legal sciences in Germany between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth centuries (especially on the constitutional debates in the years of the Weimar Republic) and on several issues at stake in the development of contemporary political theory. In recent years his work has particularly centred on the relations between globalization, migration and citizenship. Considering migration as a “social movement” (within the framework of the so called theory of “autonomy of migration”, which he contributed to develop within a wide network of researchers and activists based in different European countries) he has tried to analyze migration itself from the point of view of migrants’ practices of citizenship.
Gigi Roggero (senior researcher) holds a Ph.D in ‘Science, Technology, and Society’ (Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Calabria). He has a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Politics, Institutions and History of the University of Bologna. He was a social researcher in the Consortium A.A.STER of Milan and was involved in major research projects of local authorities on migration, participation and the young people being between precarity and autonomy. He participated in the editorial board of the journal Derive Approdi and collaborated with Jura Gentium, Posse and Il Manifesto.
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (UPSPS), Centre for Gender Studies - Coordinator
Panteion University is the only Greek University specialised in social and political sciences. It keeps an important position in the Greek scientific and academic community. The Centre for Gender Studies (Department of Social Policy) was set up in 2002 in order to launch research on gender in social and political sciences. The Centre is currently co-ordinating a FP7 Research Project on Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe: an interdisciplinary perspective (GeMIC). The Centre collaborates closely with the University’s Centre for Social Morphology and Social Policy (KEKMOKOP) established in 1989 to carry out research in the fields of social policy, culture, immigration, social exclusion and gender. KEKMOKOP participated in several EU funded research projects as partner and in Gender Sensitive and Women Friendly Public Policies: A Comparative Analysis of their Progress and Impact (EQUAPOL) (FP5) as coordinator. It has also carried out a large Greek-funded research project on Gender and Migrant Populations: Facets of Social Integration and Social Policy.
136 Syggrou Ave., 17671 Athens, Greece.
Tel: +30 2109201516
Institute web page: http://www.genderstudies-panteion.gr/
Maria Stratigaki (scientific coordinator) is Assistant Professor teaching Gender and Social Policy, Gender Equality Policies and European Social Policy. She is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies. She was scientific co-ordinator of FP5 EQUAPOL project and currently of FP7 GeMIC research project. She has worked in the European Commission from 1991 to 1999 and at the Greek Research for Gender Equality as Director from 1999 to 2002. She has organised and participated in seminars, congresses, and conferences on gender issues at Greek and European level. She has participated in research on women’s work, gender and technology, gender in the labour market and gender equality policies and published articles in Social Politics, European Journal of Women’s Studies. She is Member of the Board of the Greek League of Women’s Rights since 1999. She is the author of the Gender of the Social Policy (2007) and the co-editor (with Dina Vaiou) of the collective volume The Gender of Migration (2009).
Helen Kambouri (senior researcher) completed her Ph.D. in International Relations in 2005 at the London School of Economics. Since 2004 she has been employed as a research fellow at Panteion University (KEKMOKOP), where she has conducted research on different aspects of migration policies, processes and practices, with particular emphasis on gender under the FP5 EQUAPOL, research project on Gender and Migrant Populations: Facets of Social Integration and Social Policy. She is senior research in FP7 GeMIC project on Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe.
Dimitrios Parsanoglou (senior researcher) completed his PhD in Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He works as an independent researcher for several NGOs and institutions. His main research interests include the history and sociology of immigration to Greece with a special emphasis on employment and urban space. He has worked with several institutions in European and national projects about migration, gender and employment issues. He has published extensively on these issues.
Alexandra Zavos (researcher) is currently finishing her Ph.D. on “Gender, Migration and the Anti-racist Movement in Athens” funded by Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (2004- today). She holds an MSc in Critical Psychology (2004) from the same university and has a first degree in Sociology, from Panteion University (1991). She is senior researcher in FP7 GEMIC project on Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe.
Paraskevi Touri (researcher) studied social policy and social anthropology and holds a MSc in Social Change (2004) from the Department of Social Policy (Panteion University). She is currently working as a research assistant at the Centre for Gender Studies. She has large experience in organising conferences, seminars and transnational research meetings.
The Centre affiliates with:
1) The Gender and Space Centre (National Technical University of Athens -NTUA)
Institute web page: http://www.arch.ntua.gr/gs/default.aspx
Prof. Dina Vaiou (scientific advisor) is Professor of planning and gender studies in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She has studied architecture in the NTUA, planning in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (MA) and urban geography and planning in the University of London (PhD). Recent research interests, publications in Greece and abroad and papers presented in Conferences include: the feminist critique of urban analysis, the changing features of local labour markets, with special emphasis on women’s work and informalisation processes, the impact of mass migration on Southern European cities and women’s migration in particular. She has published numerous articles and books in Greece and abroad and is member of the editorial board of the following journals: European Planning Studies, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Geographies (Greek).
Olga-Zoi Lafazani (researcher) studied Urban and Economic Development at Panteion University. Her studies were in the NTUA on the topic of Architecture and Spatial Design: Urban and Regional Planning. The topic she is mostly working on has to do with migration in Europe emphasising on urban space as well as the border regimes. She is researcher at the GeMIC project and she is actively involved in the Network for the Social Support of Migrants and Refugees in Greece.
2) Re-public
Web page: Institute web page: http://www.re-public.gr/en
Theodoros Karounos (senior scholar) received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and the M.Sc. Degree in Information & Communication Systems. He has worked as a coordinator for R&D at the Informatics Development Agency of the Greek Ministry of Presidency and as an Advisor for Informatics to the Greek Minister of the Interior. Currently, he is senior researcher at the Network and Optimal Design Laboratory - NETMODE of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of NTUA. He is, also, President of the board of Republic, as well, as president of the Consortium of Greek Universities for the development of Open Source Software.
Pavlos Hatzopoulos (senior researcher) holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He is currently the editor of the bilingual (Greek-English) online journal Re-public and works as research fellow on the FP7 project GeMIC. He has published articles on digital spaces and social activism, has co-edited the volume Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile (Palgrave, 2003) and has authored the book The Balkans beyond Nationalism and Identity (IB Tauris, 2007).
Athanasios Priftis (researcher) is a PhD candidate on Information Society, e-Governance and e-Democracy issues in Aegean University (Greece) and has worked as an Advisor at the Secretariat for the Information Society Ministry of Economics and a coordinator of the EU countries during the World Summit of the Information Society and the Greek Presidency of 2003. He, currently, works as an Internet technologies information, workflow and policy analyst.
George Karamanolis (web developer) has worked as web developer and IT analyst for large organizations and is experienced in e-democracy, online participatory platforms
Symfiliosi (SYM)
Symfiliosi is a non-profit non-governmental organisation based in Cyprus. It is one of the partners that make up the Centre for the Study of Migration, Inter-ethnic & Labour Relations. It has a keen interest and involvement in anti-racism, anti-discrimination, social cohesion and integration of migrant communities, combating sex trafficking and safeguarding the rights of minorities and ethnic communities. It has been involved in research projects on: policies regarding the situation of unaccompanied migrant minors, funded by the EU (DAPHNE programme); the demand side of trafficking funded by the EU (AGIS programme); detention conditions of asylum seekers funded by EU (Programme “2005 Actions in support of civil society in the Member States which acceded to the European Union on 1st May 2004); good practices by banks and credit institutions for the integration of migrants and refugees, in the framework of the program INTI, 2007-2008; Ways of Implementing the EU directives on Violence against Children, Young People and Women: Good Practices and Recommendations in (DAPHNE project) led by the University of Ljubljana.
Dali 23, Lefkosia, 2549 Cyprus
Institute web page: http://www.reconciliationcyprus.org/index.php
Nicos Trimikliniotis (senior researcher) is Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration, Inter-ethnic & Labour Relations and Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Nicosia; he directs the Cyprus National Focal Point for Fundamental Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination. He was Scientific Director for Cyprus for FP6 Project FEMIPOL on Integration of female immigrants in labour market and society: Policy assessment and policy recommendations.
Corina Demetriou (researcher) studied law and holds a Masters degree in international law, with a focus on human rights. She has co-ordinated many of the projects, including the UNHCR funded project on provision of legal assistance to asylum seekers and refugees (2005-2006). She was involved as an analyst in the AGIS research project on the demand side of sex trafficking and in EU funded research projects on unaccompanied migrant minors and on the detention conditions of migrants. Since 2007 she is the national expert for Cyprus of the Network of Legal Experts in the anti-discrimination field operated by the Migration Policy Group and Human European Consultancy.
Olga Demetriou (researcher) is Project leader on Cypriot refugee subjectivities - structures of politics and loss. She completed a Ph.D. (LSE) thesis on the politicisation of Turkish= minority identities in Greece in 2002. She carried out research at Wolfson College, Cambridge between 2001 and 2003 and at St Peter’s and St. Antony’s Colleges, Oxford, between 2003 and 2006. She has recently completed the Migrant Cities Research, Nicosia South as part of the Living Together Project of the Institute for Public Policy Research and British Council.
Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH)
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH)’s objective is to promote studies of human societies that focus on current social realities and contexts. FMSH’s primary goal to be to only act through the subsidiary principle: the Foundation initiates, supports, sponsors research projects that are intended to become independent. The FMSH is creative in that it “listens” to the major questions about society, to researchers, and to decision-makers and then takes the risk of supporting innovative projects. Its second mission is to promote hybrid operations that combine disciplines.
54, boulevard Raspail 75270, Cedex 6 Paris, France
Institute web page: www.msh-paris.fr
Dana Diminescu (senior researcher) is Sociologist, Associate Professor at Telecom Paris Tech (Paris) and scientific director of the Research Programme on the Use of ICT in Migrations. Her Field of research is: Communication practices and uses in mobility situation, ICT uses by migrants (mobile telephone, voice IT, Internet, money transfer). She has coordinated the projects: ANR (contenu et interactions), “E-diasporas atlas”, Migrinter (University of de Poitiers), INA (National Audiovisual Institute, Paris), Bridge IT, CIPthematic Network, CE, the potential of ICT for the promotion of cultural diversity in the EU, the case of economic and social participation and integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities, a study on Social Computing and Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities and an ongoing research on the uses of Skype by the migrants (ENST/ FMSH).
Mathieu Renault (researcher) is engineer, PhD candidate in philosophy and research attaché at the project on the Use of ICT in Migrations. His field of research is on ICT and Migrations, notably on Social Computing and migrations, Immigrant’s Political Activism and the Internet, Migrations, marriages and gender in the Web and Postcolonial Studies (race relations, racism and psychoanalysis and colonialism).
Mathieu Jacomy (researcher) is engineer, PhD candidate in information science R&D, coordinator of the Research Programme on the Use of ICT in Migrations. He is researcher at WebAtlas. His research is on: Creation and experimentation of tools to act in a digital space, Mobilization of theoretical or technical elements to explore the Web, Mobilization of theoretical or technical elements to map the Web, Social data mining.
Sylvie Gangloff (researcher) is Political Scientist (PhD, Sorbonne), Development Coordinator of the Research Programme on the Use of ICT in Migrations. Her field of study is: e-Government and migrants, e-inclusion and promotion of digitalization (public and private actors), Immigrant’s political activism and the Internet.
Christophe D’Iribane (researcher) is Engineer, Physicist (PhD) R&D and researcher at the programme on the Use of ICT in Migrations (FMSH, Paris).
University of Hamburg, Institute for Sociology (UHH)
The Institute of Sociology at the University of Hamburg is dedicated to gender studies, governance, and migration studies. Several professors from the Institute of Sociology and other units of the Faculty are participating with their international research projects in the Centre of Excellence founded in 2002 have formed a research network on processes of globalisation, comparative analysis of the transformation of social welfare systems and the question of governance. The research team of the UHH focuses on issues of gender, migration, and governance and methods of empirical research and visual studies.
Allende-Platz 1, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Institute website: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
Prof. Marianne Pieper (senior scholar) studied sociology, economics, politics, psychology and educational sciences. She is Associate professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg (1991-1992); researcher at the University of Hamburg (1990-1995) and visiting professor in qualitative methods of social research at the University of Kassel (1994-1996). Since 1996 she is Professor of Sociology (Gender Studies, Social Inequalities and Methods of Social Research) at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Sociology. She conducted research on the production of subjectivity under conditions of poverty and marginalisation and on non-adult African refugees. She conducted a project on New forms of Intimacy and Family Life and coordinated two international projects with partners from several European Member States: (a) “From welfare to work-poverty and social exclusion in a migration society” and (b) “Housework and Caretaking: Strategies of reconciliation in different family units (Gender, class and ethnic inequalities)”.
Vassilis Tsianos (senior researcher) holds a BA in Sociology and a MA in Sociology of migration and racism. His PhD thesis discusses the relationship between new Migration and Precarity in the EU. He teaches theoretical sociology and migration studies at the University of Hamburg. He also worked as a Fellow Researcher in the project “Transit Migration” (2003-2005) investigating European border regimes and new forms of migration in South Eastern Europe (financed by the German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Brigitta Kuster (researcher) is artist, author and filmmaker. Her works focuses issues such as the representation of work, gender and sexual identity, migration and (post)colonialism. She was part of the project Transit Migration, a transdisciplinary research, film, art, and sound project that builds on the collaborative efforts of academics, filmmakers, media activists, and artists. It examined the ways in which actual trans-national migration movements are transforming Europe and asked how, and whether, it is possible to represent this reality in academic discourse, in the media, and in art. Actually she is working on a film project together with Moise Mabouna on Cameroon/German/Swiss colonial memories and their respective disrupts.
Utrecht University, Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme (UU)
The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW) contains the programmes in Theatre, Film and Television Studies, New Media and Digital Culture, Communication and Information Studies, Gender Studies (GgeP) and Musicology.The Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) of Utrecht University distinguishes itself for its international and interdisciplinary research programme which focuses on transitional justice, post-colonialism, post-humanism, and post-secularism and adds to the gender debates on ethics and aesthetics, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, migration, human rights in its entanglement with other axes of socio-cultural differentiation such as ‘race’/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. GGeP is involved in various European projects like the Erasmus Mundus GEMMA; the EU Socrates Thematic Network ATHENA3; the EU FP6 Marie Curie EST; the EU Lifelong Learning Programme - Erasmus Intensive Programme NOISE. The Gender Graduate Programme hosts the High Potential Programme “Wired up. Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth” (2007-2012) which is an international, interdisciplinary project carried out by media and postcolonial critic Sandra Ponzanesi (Humanities, UU) in collaboration with intercultural psychologist Mariëtte de Haan (Social Sciences, UU) and literary ethnographer Kevin Leander (Vanderbilt University, USA, Education and Human Development). The project focuses on how new digital media practices involving the Internet (e.g., information seeking, instant messaging, chat, web logs, the production and distribution of multi-media) impact on the lives, identities, learning and socialization of migrant youth. The project aims to locate the study of the effects of digital media in relation to socio-cultural configurations mediated by nationality, gender and ethnicity. See: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup
Muntstraat 2A, 3512 EV Utrecht, the Netherlands
Institute webpage: http://www.genderstudies.nl
Sandra Ponzanesi (senior scholar) is Associate Professor of Gender and Postcolonial critique at Utrecht University (NL), at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme. Her previous research has focused on comparative postcolonial literatures, in particular on Italian postcolonial writings and on the reception of postcolonial literature in relation to the literary award industry. Her most current interests focus on postcolonial cinema studies and on the exploration of digital literacies of migrant youth in transnational contexts. She works also on the understanding of “Europe” from a postcolonial perspective by taking into account issues of empires, migration, multiculturalism, religion and citizenship. She is “project leader of the High Potential Programme Wired Up: Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth”; project investigator of the AHRC research network “Postcolonial Europe” (Leeds, Munich and Utrecht) and coordinator of the European wide working group “Postcolonial Europe” under Athena3, the European Advanced Thematic Network in Activities in Women’s Studies in Europe.
Eva Midden (senior researcher) is lecturer in Gender Studies, at the Media and Culture Studies Department, at Utrecht University. She has a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and has recently finished her PhD thesis ‘Feminism in Multicultural Societies. An Analysis of Dutch Multicultural and Postsecular Developments and their Implications for Feminist Debates’ at the University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom). For this thesis she did a media analysis (on the Dutch feminist magazine Opzij) and focus groups with women from women’s organizations and combined this empirical work with a more theoretical analysis of the relationship between multiculturalism and feminism. Her research interests include feminists theory, postcolonial theory, intersectionality, (post)secular(ism), whiteness and media analysis. She is also assistant editor of the new online journal Religion and Gender.
Koen Leurs (researcher) is a PhD student in Gender Studies, at the Media and Culture Studies Department at Utrecht University (NL). He holds a master’s degree in Media Studies from Utrecht University with a minor from the National University of Singapore. He participates in the international and interdisciplinary research project “Wired Up, Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth”. His dissertation addresses how Dutch-Moroccan migrant youth use digital media to create a space and mediate their journeys at the crossroads of cultures of origin, global youth cultures, and cultures of immigration. He takes part in ‘Intergender’, a Research school in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and has participated in ‘Network Of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe’ (NOISE) and Oxford Internet Institute summer schools. Earlier he was an editor for the Dutch literary journal ‘Vooys’. He is a member of the AHRC research network “Postcolonial Europe” (Leeds, Munich and Utrecht) and the “Postcolonial Studies Initiative” (PCI, Utrecht University). His research interests include feminist technoscience, new media theory, postcolonial theory, intersectional thinking and (virtual) ethnography.
The Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies (PI)
Peace Institute of the Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, established in 1991, is a non-profit research institution, located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The PI work addresses five thematic focuses: Contemporary political studies (historical, topographical and phenomenological dimensions of politics), gender studies (political participation, history of women’s and feminist movements, education for women in politics), human rights and minorities (communication building and increasing educational and employment opportunities), the media (monitoring, studying and reporting on media practices and media policy, democratization of media) and cultural policy (development trends, material conditions of cultural institutions and the effects of their operation). Special attention is devoted to cultural industry (mass products of popular culture and their economic, political and social implications). The PI is coordinator and partner to EU research projects (FP5 MAGEEQ on Gender Mainstreaming: Policy Frames and Implementation Problems, FP6 FeMiPol on Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society and FP6 QUING on Quality in Gender and Equality Policies).
Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Institute web page: www.mirovni-institut.si
Mojca Pajnik (senior researcher) holds a PhD in Communication Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana) and works as a scientific counsellor at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana. She is assistant professor at the Department of Communication (Media Studies) and was a lecturer in social practices of communication at the International School for Social and Business Studies (Celje, Slovenia). She has been a project coordinator to several national and international initiatives on media, gender, migration and citizenship including FP6 FeMiPol. Her recent research project is on Active Citizenship (funded by the Slovenian Research Agency, 2007–2009). She is programme director at the Open Society Institute that funds international projects on civil society issues and the media (i.e. Mainstreaming/Empowering Minorities in the Media in Multicultural Societies).
Veronika Bajt (senior researcher) is a researcher at the Peace Institute and holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Bristol, UK). She has been involved in several international research projects on migration, gender and media (FP6 FeMiPol and a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Admir Baltic (researcher) holds an M.A. in political science. He works as a cultural project manager at the Bosniac Cultural Union in Slovenia. His work primarily includes activities related to media presentation of the Bosniac community in Slovenia. He has (co)organized and moderated a number of workshops dedicated to the promotion of media activism of members of ethnic minorities in Slovenia, pursuing in broader sense the empowerment of Slovenia’s ethnic communities.
University of Hull, Department of Humanities
The University of Hull is a traditional, first division research-led University, providing a diversity of courses, from Bachelors to Masters and Doctorate level. Founded it 1927, the University has a range of international relationships with partner institutions and also engages in joint research projects and post graduate delivery. Other partnerships include University faculties and colleagues working with sub-regional partners in local authorities, schools and colleges in fields, such as progression to HE, teacher training, professional development, and ‘Every Child Matters’ policy subgroups. Similarly, health and NHS partnerships, as well as business groups and network-based trainers, are also important areas of engagement for the University. Media, Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary and iconoclastic programme. It provides a distinctive education by interrogating a wide variety of identities and institutions. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that distinguishes it from both ‘Cultural Studies’ and ‘Media Studies’, our innovative programme develops a set of critical skills that enable a better understanding of how our society is shaped and how it has developed.
Cottingham Road Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Institute web page: http://www.hull.ac.uk
Athina Karatzogianni (senior researcher) has studied international relations, international conflict analysis and her PhD research was on the theoretical significance of the network forms of new technologies on the phenomenology of social protest and resistance and on the formation of identities and differences. Her field research was on the impact of new technologies on social and political communication in a variety of settings (including the Iraq war protests, the anti-globalisation movement, Chinese cyber-dissidents and the Israeli- Palestinian conflict). Current research expands these concerns attempting to develop a broader appreciation of the theoretical implications of networked forms of communication and organization and the Cyberconflict agenda.
Oksana Morgunova (Petrunko) is a full-time research fellow at [email protected] She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. During last 10 years she has lead an interdisciplinary research of Post-Soviet migration and the Internet of the Russian diaspora. She authored a number of articles and published a book on the Russian migration and its cultural legacy in Britain. Originally from Moscow, she worked as an international journalist before starting her academic career. She continues contributing to various programmes of the BBC World Service and Russian TV as an expert on migration and the Russian-language Internet.
