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About us

The Lab is a non-profit organisation constituted by migration scholars and practitioners to provide research services to various stakeholders and groups working on migration, integration and social justice.

INTEGRIM (“Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies”) was a Marie Skłodowska Curie research training programme developed under the EU Seventh Framework Programme. While the programme ended in 2017, some of the fellows involved in the network set up the Lab as a way to continue working collaboratively and advocate for knowledge-driven policy-making and applied research practices.

The Lab wants to bridge the gap between research, policy-making and practice.

Contact us at: integrimlab@gmail.com


Amandine Desille
Co-Director

Postdoctoral Researcher in local governance of migrations for the Re-Place project based at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon.

Tina Magazzini
Co-Director

Senior Researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Distinguished Researcher at the University of A Coruña and the Interuniversity Research Centre on Atlantic Cultural Landscapes.

Reinhard Schweitzer
Co-Director

Research Professor at the Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, Research Associate at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Maria Grazia Montella
Founding Member

Senior Consultant in Migration for the European Migration Network at ICF. Previously Project Officer for the Inclucities project and Coordinator of Migration and Integration Group at the Council of Municipalities and Regions.

Davide Gnes
Founding Member

Project officer at the Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM). Previously postdoctoral researcher in EU Migration Policy at the Amsterdam Center for European Law and Governance.

Stefano Piemontese
Founding Member

Research Fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity of the University of Birmingham for the project Improving the Living and Labour Conditions of Irregularised Migrant Households in Europe.

Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła
Member

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Migration Research (University of Warsaw) and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Regional Studies, Jagiellonian University.

JuanFra Alvarado Valenzuela
Member

Senior researcher in Sociology on the topic of entrepreneurial failure and recovery of migrant entrepreneurs at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Beatrice Tommasi
Member

Beatrice holds a MA in Mediterranean governance from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. She has worked at the Council of European Municipalities and Regions on gender equality, migration and inclusion.

Şahizer Samuk
Member

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Bi Norwegian business school with a project on highly skilled migrants. She is also a stakeholder advisor for ENIS – International Student Mobility Cost Action.

Nina Sahraoui
Member

Junior Professor at Paris Saclay University and PI of ERC project GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG that researches the environmental factors of migration through a gendered lens. Her work focuses on migration and gender studies.

Océane Uzureau
Member

Member of the Mixed Migration Centre Europe in Brussels. Océane holds a PhD in Social Work and Social Pedagogy from Ghent University and her research focuses on youth’s experiences on the move.

Sophie Hinger
Member

Postdoctoral researcher interested in border and migration regimes, based at the Institute of Geography of the University of Osnabrück and working for the Collaborative research Centre “Production of Migration”.

Berta Güell
Member

Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Sociology, and focuses mainly on migration, gender, and labour market integration.

INTEGRIM is an association without lucrative purpose (AISBL 755 950 494) registered in Belgium since 2020.