Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor and Director of a Programme on Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She has been teaching as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. Her recent books include Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (2010, Ashgate), European Multiculturalism(s) (with T. Modood and N. Meer, 2011, Edinburgh University Press), Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Africa and Asia to Europe (with T. Maroukis, 2012, Palgrave), The Greek Crisis and Modernity in Europe (with R. Gropas and H. Kouki, Palgrave, 2013), Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares? (Ashgate, 2013), and What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, 2013, Palgrave).

Ayşe Çağlar holds a Chair at the University of Vienna.
Jean-Pierre Cassarino is a part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS).
Camilla Devitt completed her doctorate in political and social sciences at the European University Institute in 2010.
Eda Gemi is a research assistant at the ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy) and PhD candidate at the University of Athens, Institute for Migration and Diaspora Studies (EMMEDIA).
Katarzyna Gmaj is a lecturer at Lazarski University, in Warsaw.
Carmen González Enríquez is Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Department of Political Science.
Krystyna Iglicka is Rector and Professor at Lazarski University, in Warsaw and a Polish government expert on migration policy.
Nick Mai is a Reader in Migration Studies at ISET, the Institute for the Study of European Transformations of the London Metropolitan University.
Thanos Maroukis is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bath, UK.
Cristiana Paladini is a Professor at the Lumsa University of Rome.
Francesca Alice Vianello, is a Post-Doc Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) of the University of Padua.