Sarah Spencer was the first Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity at the University of Oxford and is a former Deputy Director of COMPAS where she is an Emeritus Fellow. She represented COMPAS on the IMISCOE Board of Directors and was chair of the Board from 2018 – 2022. Sarah’s research has focused on human rights, ‘integration’ and migrants with an irregular status, on which recent publications include Spencer, S. (2022). The Contested Concept of ‘Integration’ in P. Scholten (Ed) Introduction to Migration Studies: An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity. Springer. IMISCOE Research Series; Spencer, S. (2022). European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue, Global Networks 22(3):413-429; Spencer, S. & Charsley, K. (2021). Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques. Comparative Migration Studies 9:18. Springer; Spencer, S. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2020). (Eds) Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges. Springer; Charsley, K., Bolognani, M., Ersanilli, E. & Spencer, S. (2020). Marriage Migration and Integration: British South Asian Transnational Marriages and Processes of Integration. Palgrave MacMillan; and Spencer, S. & Delvino, D. (2019). Municipal activism on irregular migrants: the framing of inclusive approaches at the local level. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 17 (1): 27 – 43. Sarah’s research on irregular migrants was instrumental in the creation of the City Initiative on Migrants with an Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE) of which she was Director/later Co-Director from 2017 – 2021. She has also been the PI on a series of empirical research projects with European and North American partners, including most recently the LoReMi project on which this books draws. She received her doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Ilker Ataç is a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social Welfare in the University of Applied Sciences Fulda in Germany. Before, he has taught at the University of Vienna and at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück. He has been visiting professor for Politics of Labour Migration at the University Kassel and at the Department of Social Welfare at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He is on the editorial board of the journal Movements, Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies. His research focuses on migration and social policy, social movements, civil society, citizenship studies and urban politics. His work has appeared in international academic journals including Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Immigrant and RefugeeStudies, Social Movement Studies and Critical Sociology. His recent publications include Ataç, I. & Schilliger, S. (2022). Civil society organisations engaged with illegalised migrants in Bern and Vienna: co-production of urban citizenship in: M. Jørgensen & C. Schierup (Eds) Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility. Brill; Ataç, I. & Schwenken, H. (2021). Reconceptualizing and de-nationalizing repertoires of migrant political activism. In: Carmel, E. & Lenner, K. & Paul, R. (Eds) Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. Edward Elgar; Ataç, I. & Steinhilper, E. (2020). Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna. Social Movement Studies; Ataç I. & Rygiel K. & Stierl M. (2021). Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home. Critical Sociology, 47(6); Ataç, I. & Schütze, T. & Reitter, V. (2020). Local responses in restrictive national policy contexts: welfare provisions for non-removed rejected asylum seekers in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Vienna. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(16), p. 115-134.
Zach Bastick is a research fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and a research affiliate at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. His research focuses on the impacts of technology on vulnerable populations - particularly precarious migrants. His expertise in migration focuses on the impacts on, and uses of, digital technologies on migrants. His current work analyses how municipalities respond to the presence of migrants with precarious status from the perspectives of technology, social services, and multi-level governance. He has contributed to the C-MISE City Network, facilitated byth
