Associate Professor in Sociology. Mainly specialises in migrant adaptation and integration, ethnic attitudes and discourses on migration, community sponsorship and private support of refugees. Serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Central and Eastern European Migration Review. Her recent book “Rethinking settlement and integration: Migrants’ anchoring in an age of insecurity (Manchester University Press).

Kamil Matuszczyk holds a PhD in political and administration sciences (specialization in public policy). He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at University of Warsaw and is also associated with the Centre of Migration Research also at University of Warsaw. His interests focus on issues of contemporary labour mobility (posting of workers, seasonal workers), the migration industry, migration policies, ageing society and long-term care.

Kseniya Homel-Ficenes graduated from the Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization, University of Warsaw. Kseniya is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw and an associate researcher at the Centre of Migration Research. Her research interests include issues of entrepreneurship among individuals with migration experience, particularly women, the role of support networks, and forms of self-organization in areas where there are no systemic solutions from the state and the mainstream society.

She is conducting research projects on women’s entrepreneurship with migration experience: NCN Preludium 21 “Strategies for achieving agency in the masculinized world of business: a sociological analysis of entrepreneurial trajectories of female migrants in Poland” (2022/45/N/HS6/01241), and IDUB CESS “Business in a New Country: Strategies of Female Migrants and Entrepreneurial Support Infrastructure in Poland and Italy.”