Prof. Dr. Jean Tillie studied Political Science and wrote his PhD dissertation on determinants and measurement of party preference and voting behaviour, at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is Coordinator of IMES Cluster 3, which deals with Networks of Migrant Organisations, Political mobilisation and the Institutional Design of Multicultural Democracies. At present, Jean supervises several projects on the relationship between ethnic civic communities and the political integration of immigrants in European cities (vis-à-vis voting turnout, political trust and interest in local politics).

Marta Bolognani is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol University. She completed her PhD from Leeds University with a thesis on British Pakistanis' criminological discourses. She was then Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) for two years, and in 2008 she moved to Wales where she was Head of Sociology, Criminology and Popular Culture at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff (UWIC). Her research interests include: Muslims in Europe, Muslim practices in the contemporary world, Pakistani diaspora, Muslim popular culture, urban studies in multicultural settings.

 

Sarah Carol, born in 1980, Diploma in Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

She studied social sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In September 2006 she completed her studies with a thesis on "The importance of social networks and social support for social integration: An empirical analysis on South Asians in Germany and Canada". From April 2007 until February 2009 she worked as a consultant at the market research institute INNOFACT AG.

Research interests: social integration of immigrants, interethnic friendships, Southasian diaspora, sociology of media

Manlio Cinalli is a Researcher at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) where his current research interests include multi-level governance and comparative European public policy. He has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has done comparative work on ethno-nationalist conflict and political mobilisation and on immigration, ethnic relations, and social exclusion. He has authored and co-authored several research reports for the European Commission.
Dr Cinalli trained as a political scientist at the University of Florence, Italy, and at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he was awarded a PhD in Politics and International Relations.

Dr. A.J. van Heelsum is a researcher at the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies. She (MA social psychology, PhD social-cultural sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) wrote her PhD on 'The ethno-cultural position of the second- generation Surinamese'. She worked as researcher at the department of social research methodology and at the department of organisational psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, at the Werkgroep 2000 and at IMES.

From 1996 onwards she has been involved in IMES-research projects in three main areas: a) migrant organisations, b) political participation of immigrants and c) city policies on immigrants.

Dirk Jacobs (MA in sociology, University of Ghent, 1993; PhD in social sciences, Utrecht University, 1998) is professor in sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Zuhal Kavacik, M. A., born in 1983, studied international migration and intercultural relations at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. In March 2009 she completed her M.A. degree with a thesis on  "School Experiences of female immigrants with a successful educational career".

Research interests: international migration and social differentiation research
 

Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, born in 1961, graduate of political science at the University of Amsterdam; senior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), at the Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau in Rijswijk and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Since 2003 Professor of Sociology, Chair in Social Conflict and Change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, since April 2007 Director of the research unit "Migration, Integration, Transnationalization" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

Research interests: Immigration and integration politics; Right-wing radicalism; Social movements; European integration; Evolutionary sociology.

Gabi Maas is a PhD student at the University of Oxford and research assistant at CEVIPOF (Sciences-Po). Her thesis is on autonomist politics and religious dissidence among Algerian Berbers in France. Currently on fieldwork in Paris; she spend a lot of it playing violin with traditional Berber and châabi groups

Paul Statham is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of EurPolCom, the International Research Network on European Political Communications, hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. He was formerly a professor at the University of Leeds and a researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin. His research focuses on European integration and the public sphere and on multiculturalism, Islam, and migrants’ political mobilization in Europe, within a cross-national comparative framework. He has published more than 20 articles in international scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Western European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Harvard Journal of Press/Politics, European Journal of Communication, Ethnicities, Journalism, Mobilization, and the European Political Science Review. He is co-author of Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe with Ruud Koopmans, Marco Giugni, and Florence Passy. He also co-edited Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics. His research program has been supported six major grant awards from the European Framework Programme and two from the British Economic and Social Research Council.

Research assistant at IMES.