Dr. Laura Morosanu

Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex

Laura Morosanu co-coordinates two research networks: The Ethnicity, Race and Diverse Societies Network at Sussex, and the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM). Her research analyses questions related to migrant networks, identities, and work trajectories, and how these are shaped by migrants’ social locations and various forms of inclusion and exclusion.

Zouhair El-Hairan

President of the Euro-Arab organization, and member of the Salam Shalom and AUDIR associations, PhD Candidate and teacher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Pompeu Fabra University, IMISCOE network member.

Zouhair El-Hairan has experience working in non-profit organizations, news analysis, the media, and international cooperation. His research interests are focused on Moroccan Youth Transnational Entrepreneurship, Catalan cooperation with the Maghreb Area, the Post-Migrant Generations, participation in Political Transnationalism, Prevention of Radicalization Processes, and Islam and the Media in Spain.

Isabela Mihalache

MA in Gender Equality, Project officer at ERGO (European Roma Grassroots Organizations Network), Brussels, Belgium.

Isabela Mihalache is an experienced officer with a demonstrated history of working in non-profit organizations, donor foundations, inter-governmental organisations on fundamental rights, non-discrimination, minority rights, and gender equality policies. She is skilled in Gender Mainstreaming, Management, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Policy Analysis, European and international human rights standards and Human Rights Training. 

Dr. Ábel Bereményi

Doctor of Social Anthropology, assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona.

Ábel Bereményi’s main research interests include ethnic and migrant minority groups (Roma/Gypsy, Eastern European migrants), children/ youth, and social inequalities, mainly in the domains of education and the labour market. Recently he conducted empirical research on the individual effects of education-driven social mobility among young people from minority groups as well as on their school-to-work transition.

Dr. Sarah Werner Boada

Marie Skłodowska–Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND)
Department of Sociology / Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick

Sarah Werner Boada’s current research examines decisions to remove children from Romani and Traveller families in England and Spain from an intersectional perspective. She has earlier taught on Race, Gender, and Motherhood Studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also has policy advocacy experience in the non-profit sector.
 

Dr. Cristina Rodríguez Reche

Doctor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Margarita Salas Postdoctoral fellow at GRITIM-UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and INMIX (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Cristina rodríguez Reche conducts research on the processes of construction of identities (religious and racialized). Her PhD project addressed daughters of mixed couples with a father or mother of Moroccan origin.

David Stoleru

Architect (Paris-La Seine, France) specializing in urban rehabilitation and heritage conservation, graduated from the Mandel Leadership Institute for educational innovation.

David Stoleru is the founder of The Beit Project, an educative urban project nowadays present in 14 countries - connecting history, urban space and contemporary social issues. Fascinated by the plurality of the city and the dynamics of education, he continually searches to combine them to transform our vision of otherness and fight discrimination. David has very recently developed The Boat Project, a nomadic school on the Mediterranean Sea.

Dr. Cris Zhang Yu - 张婷婷

Doctor of Educational Psychology, postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Girona.

Cris Zhang Yu is interested in analyzing and identifying how institutional racism is (re)produced in the Catalan educational system, through educational policies and teaching-learning processes. She is part of Shere Rom, a school-university community based on culturally sustaining pedagogies and critical pedagogies, and part of AICE Antiracist Collective.