Material Politics of Citizenship

Nina Amelung is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She works on public controversies, public involvement, and democratic challenges of cross-border biometric data-exchange in the context of crime and migration control infrastructures. She is especially interested in the reflection on emergent and marginalized publics. She has authored and co-authored peer reviewed articles and book chapters on the European asylum policies and biometric technologies applied in migration control infrastructures. Her latest co-authored book is entitled Modes of Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe.

Cristiano Gianolla is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra (UC), where he is co-coordinator of the research unit on Democracy, Citizenship and Law, co-founding and co-coordinating member of the "Inter-Thematic group on Migrations", co-coordinator of the research group "Epistemologies of the South", and coordinating editor of Alice News. He is the Principal Investigator of the UNPOP project (FCT, 2021-2024) and co-coordinates the PhD courses "Democratic Theories and Institutions", "State, Democracy and Legal Pluralism", and the MA course "Critical Intercultural Dialogue" at the UC. His current research interests focus on emotions and narratives in democratic processes in a broader range of topics that include democratic theory, populism, postcolonialism, intercultural dialogue, heritage processes, movement-parties, citizenship, human rights, migrations, and cosmopolitanism.

Joana Sousa Ribeiro is Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (NHUMEP Research Group- Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a PhD student at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra. Her main research interests include socio-professional mobility of migrants and refugees, longitudinal studies, intercultural studies, and citizenship. She co-cordinates an IMISCOE research network group - YAMEC Network - that focuses on issues of mobility of young adults and the economic crisis and she is a founding member of the "Inter-Thematic group on Migrations" (ITM) at CES.

Olga Solovova is Researcher at the Centre for the 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2018-2020, she developed a Maria Sklodowska-Curie research action (MSCA-IF-2017:798157) at the Center for Mutlingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, Norway. Her project looked into discourses in action on the Norwegian-Russian border, and the role of Russia in the bordering practices within the multilingual economy. Her main fields of expertise are language ideologies and policies in multilingual and migrant contexts, social construction of space and multimodal meaning making, spaces and means of representation of the Other. She has authored and co-authored book chapters and articles on media representations of migrant and refugee population and language policies in migrant contexts and in academia.