Biografisk notat

Özge Bilgili is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where she is a member of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) and member of the national research school ICS. Özge is an Executive Board Member of IMISCOE and the former coordinator of IMISOCE Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism. Between 2016-2022, she was the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR). Her research line is at the intersections of migration, integration and transnationalism studies, with a particular interest in (higher) education research and policy analysis in relevant areas. The impact of her research achievement is founded on strong emphasis on inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives. She is also one of the founding board members of social initiative Parenting across Borders, offering individual support to new migrant parents in the Netherlands.

Marta Bivand Erdal is a Research Professor in Migration Studies, at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway, where she is Co-Director of the PRIO Migration Center. As a Human Geographer she is interested in the impacts of migration and transnationalism in both emigration and immigration contexts. This has led to research on migration and development, the interplay of social and spatial mobility, and migration-related diversity including on religion, nationhood and citizenship. Marta’s work draws on interview, focus group, and survey data, paying critical attention to the use of categories. Her empirical focus is on European and Asian contexts. She has published extensively in migration studies and geography journals and engages regularly with governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. Marta is an Editorial board member of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Migration and Development, and an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Central and Eastern European Migration Review.