Dr. Christophe Bertossi

Dr. Christophe Bertossi holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Political Studies in Aix-en-Provence (France). He is teaching at the Institute of Political Studies in Toulouse (France) and conducting a research on dual nationals in the French army at the French Institute for International Relations in Paris (with Catherine Wihtol de Wenden and Rémy Leveau). He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick (UK) in 2001-2003. His research interests concern immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism in Europe. His most recent publications include: Les frontières de la citoyenneté en Europe. Nationalité, résidence, appartenance, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2001; "Negotiating the boundaries of equality in Europe" in PEGS - Political Economy of the Good Society, Pennsylvania University Press (Autumn 2003); "Republican citizenship, equality and the French dilemma" in Community, Cohesion and Citizenship, London, Runnymede Trust, 2002: 72-95. He is now translating in French and editing a book based on works by John Rex (Ethnicité et nationalisme: la sociologie des sociétés multiculturelles, La Tour d'Aigues, Editions de l’Aube, publication by 2004).

Contact:
CRER, University of Warwick, Coventry
United Kingdom
christophe.bertossi@netcourrier.com

Reynald Blion

Mr. Reynald Blion is the scientific director of the Migration, Pluri-cultural and Development programme at Panos Paris. Before joining Panos in 1998, Reynald BLION has worked for a French NGO, managing several development co-operation programmes. Previously as a socio-economist, he worked for IRD (a scientific research center specialised in development) for a research programme on West African immigration networks.

He is the organiser, director and chairman of international seminars, and the author of various publications and communications – participation in seminars, conferences, national and international meetings, contribution to writing scientific or media articles, participation in audio-visual broadcasts. His publications include D’un voyage à l’autre, des voix de l’immigration pour un développement pluriel (ed. with Isabelle Rigoni) (Paris, Panos/Karthala, 2001); “Immigrés - acteurs du développement : éléments de synthèse et de réflexion”, Migrations Sociétés, 12(67), Jan.-Feb. 2000, pp.111-124.

Contact:
Panos Paris Institute
France
reynaldb@panosparis.org
http://www.panosparis.org

Prof. Giovanna Campani

Giovanna Campani, doctor in Ethnology of the University of Nice (France) (1988), is professor of Intercultural Education at the University of Florence (Italy). She has participated and has directed different researches for international organisations (European Science Foundation, UNESCO, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working conditions, OIM, DGV of the European Commission, etc...) on intercultural relations, migrations, anti-racist work. She is regularly working with the EMZ, Europaishes Migrationszentrum of Berlin.

She is author of different books and has published many articles in qualified journals. Her last books: I saperi dell’interculturalità, Liguori, Napoli, 2002; Perché siamo musulmane, Guerini, Milano, 2002; Genere, etnia e classe. Migrazioni al femminile tra esclusione e identità, ETS, Pise, 2000; La rosa e lo specchio, Ipermedium, Naples, 1996. In collaboration: with Besalù, Palaudarias, Educacion intercultural en Europa. Un enfoque curricular, Pomares Corredor, Barcelona, 1998; with Verma, Woodrow, Trindade, Intercultural Education:Theories, policies and practices, Ashgate, London, 1997.

Contact :
Università of Firenze
Italy
campani@unifi.it

Prof. Stephen Castles

Stephen Castles is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, UK. He studied sociology at Frankfurt am Main (Germany), and took an MA and DPhil at the University of Sussex (UK). He has carried out research on migration and multicultural societies in Europe, Australia and Asia for many years.

His books include: Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe (with Godula Kosack, London: Oxford University Press, 1973); Here for Good: Western Europe’s New Ethnic Minorities (London: Pluto, 1984); The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (with Mark Miller, London: Macmillan, 1998); Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging (with Alastair Davidson, London: Macmillan, 2000); and Ethnicity and Globalization: From Migrant Worker to Transnational Citizen (London: Sage, 2000).

Contact :
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
stephen.castles@qeh.ox.ac.uk
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

Prof. Pierre Cours-Salies

Pierre Cours-Salies is Professor of the universities (sociology and political science), director of the PhD programme at the European Studies Institute, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis (France), membre of the CNRS research centre Genre et rapports sociaux (GERS, IRESCO-CNRS), membre of the scientific committee of the Dictionnaire critique du féminisme (Paris, PUF, 2000), and membre of the redaction committee of the review Cahiers du genre. His research interests include the sociology of social movements, public policies and labour. His previous research was focused on labour perspectives: time reduction, aspirations, revendications (DARES, 1996-1997). His current research concerns the social relations in the small and medium size companies in 8 European countries: monographies, surveys and interviews (3 years project SMALL, financed by the European Union).

His publications include La liberté du travail (Paris, Syllepse 1994); "Un espoir en partie formulé" in Claude Leneveu & Michel Vakaloulis (ed.), Faire mouvement (Paris, PUF 1998); "Droits sociaux d'hier. Luttes et perspectives" in Tony Andréani (ed.), Refaire la politique (Paris, Syllepse 2002).

Contact:
University of Paris 8, Saint Denis
France
pcs@iresco.fr
pierre.cours-salies@wanadoo.fr

Prof. Gunther Dietz

Prof. Gunther Dietz has studied Anthropology, Hispanic Studies, Philosophy and Sociology at the Universities of Granada (Spain), Göttingen and Hamburg (Germany). He has been teaching at the Universities of Hamburg, Gent (Belgium) and Aalborg (Denmark). He has been visiting research fellow at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, El Colegio de Michoacán (Zamora, Mexico); at the Dept of Americanist Anthropology, Hamburg University (Germany); at the School for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research on Interculturalism and Transnationality, Aalborg University (Denmark); at the Steunpunt Intercultureel Onderwijs, Ghent University (Belgium) and at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego (USA). He is currently Profesor Titular of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada (Spain).

His main research interests include minority integration and development policies in indigenous regions, ethnicity, interculturality and intercultural education; ethnic and/or multiculturalist movements and non-governmental organizations as new social actors.

His publications include “Multi-Level Discrimination of Muslim Women in Europe”, in Jochen Blaschke (ed.), Multi-Level Discrimination of Muslim Women in Europe, Berlin, Parabolis, 2002, pp.341-520; Frontier Hybridization or Culture Clash? Trans-national migrant communites and sub-national identity politics in Andalusia, Spain, San Diego, University of California, CCIS Working Paper n°35, 2001, 60p. http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg35.PDF; “Formalizing or Marginalizing the Immigrants' Shadow Economy?: NGOs and local authorities as intercultural intermediaries between Senegalese tradesmen and their Spanish customers in two Andalusian towns”, High Plains Applied Anthropologist, Boulder, 1999, 19(1), pp.1-9.

Contact:
University of Granada
Spain
gdietz@ugr.es
www.ugr.es/~ldei/

Prof. Danièle Joly

Prof. Danièle Joly holds a LesL in Paris, a Mesl at La Sorbonne, and a PhD at Aston. She is currently Director of CRER, University of Warwick, Coventry, United-Kingdom. She is an active member of various European networks of researchers on refugees and asylum.

Her book publications include Haven or Hell: Asylum Policy and Refugees in Europe (1996), Britannia's Crescent: Making a Place for Muslims in British Society (1995), Refugees: Asylum in Europe (1992). She is editor of Scapegoats and Social Actors (1998) and co-editor of Immigrant Associations in Europe (1987) and of Reluctant Hosts: Europe and its Refugees (1989).

Contact:
CRER, University of Warwick, Coventry
United Kingdom
crer@warwick.ac.uk

McLeod, Mike

Mr. Mike McLeod is senior research fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Warwick University (UK) where he undertakes business development research for Caribbean companies operating in the UK. He is an associate of the EU's Centre for Development of Enterprise and runs seminars and workshops on export marketing in Europe, providing supervision and support for students researching this topic. Collaborative consultancy projects undertaken with CRER include: a DfEE survey of ethnic minority attitudes to use of information/communication technologies; a Learning Skills Council study into black and minority ethnic participation in Birmingham's professional and financial services sector; a survey of black and minority ethnic voluntary organisations for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, published in 2001 by the Policy Studies Institute.

Contact:
CRER, University of Warwick, Coventry
United Kingdom
m.mcLeod@warwick.ac.uk

Dr.Isabelle Rigoni

Dr. Isabelle Rigoni holds a PhD from the University of Saint-Denis, Paris 8, France. She is currently EU Marie Curie Research Fellow at CRER, University of Warwick, UK (2001-2003). She was a lecturer for five years in sociology and political science in the universities of Paris 8 Saint-Denis and Evry-Val d'Essonne, France (1996-2001). She is member of the GERS research centre (IRESCO, Paris), the research centre Analyse des politiques sociales en Europe (APSE) at the European Studies Institute in University Paris 8, the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF) and the Association française de sociologie (ASF). She is also associate research fellow at the Institut Maghreb-Europe (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis) and correspondant for the review Cahiers d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien (CEMOTI), CERI-IEP de Paris.
A part of her PhD dissertation was published under the title Mobilisations et enjeux des migrations turques en Europe de l'Ouest (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2001). She is co-director of D'un voyage à l'autre. Des voix de l'immigration pour un développement pluriel (Paris, Karthala, 2001) and director of Turquie, les mille visages. Politique, religion, femmes, immigration (Paris, Syllepse, 2000). She is also the author of numerous articles on questions of migration (identity, transnational association networks, citizenship) and political violence through the Kurdish and Tamil cases.

Contact:
CRER, University of Warwick, Coventry
United Kingdom
isagil@club-internet.fr

Dr.Khurshead Wadia

Dr Khursheed Wadia is Reader in European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton (School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences) and is Visiting Research Fellow at CRER, University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests and area of study lie at the intersections of gender, ethnicity and politics. She is currently engaged in a comparative study of women asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain, Italy and Germany, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Florence (Department of Education) and the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research (European Migration Centre). She is author (with Gill Allwood) of Women and Politics in France: 1958-2000, London: Routledge, 2000.

Contact:
Division of Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton,
United Kingdom
K.Wadia@wlv.ac.uk

Prof. Catherine Withol de Wenden

Director of research at CNRS (CERI) and Doctor in Political Science (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris), Catherine Wihtol de Wenden is both a political scientist and a lawyer. She has been working for twenty years on various topics relating to international migrations. She has also led many field studies and directed collective research on comparative topics, mostly European. She was a consultant for OECD, the European Council, the European Commission and "external expert" for the UNHCR. Her current research interests are migration flows and politics of immigration in France and in Europe, citizenship, refugees, mobilisation of migrants.

Her publications include: L'Europe des migrations (Paris, ADRI / La Documentation française, 2001); La beurgeoisie. Les trois âges de la vie associative issue de l'immigration (with R. Leveau) (Paris, CNRS Ed., 2001); L'Islam en France et en Allemagne (with R. Leveau & K. Mohsen, eds.) (Paris, La Documentation française, 2001); Vingt ans d'associationnisme civique issu de l'immigration (with R. Leveau) (Paris, CNRS Ed., 2001); Faut-il ouvrir les frontières ? (Paris, Paris Presses de Sciences Po, 1999); La citoyenneté européenne (Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1997); Le défi migratoire. Questions de relations internationales (with B. Badie) (Paris, Presses de la FNSP, 1994); Les immigrés et la politique. Cent-cinquante ans d'évolution (Paris, Presses de la FNSP, 1988).

Contact:
CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
France
dewenden@ceri-sciences-po.org