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Floya Anthias is Professor of Sociology and Head of Sociology at the University of Greenwich, London. She has published extensively in the area of ethnicity, gender, migration and Cypriots in Britain. Her latest book, on the Social Division of Identity, will be published by Macmillan. She is currently writing a book on young Asians and Cypriots in Britain, and researching into exclusion and citizenship in relation to self-employment practices amongst women and minorities in Britain.
Paolo Barbesino is Research Fellow at the Graduate Research Centre in Culture and Communication, University of Sussex. He is the author of articles on both communicative approaches within the social sciences and the social construction of social knowledge with a particular emphasis on the impact of information and communication technologies. He has been leading an extensive ethnographic research project on communication patterns among migrants in urban settings co-funded by the City Council of Milan.
Rohit Barot is a lecturer in Sociology at University of Bristol. He has carried out anthropological research in Uganda, India and Britain. His main area of interest is social change with respect to class, caste, ethnicity and gender. His most recent publications are Religion and Ethnicity : Minorities and Social change in the Metropolis (Kok Pharos 1993) and The Racism Problematic: Contemporary Debates on Race and Ethnicity (The Edwin Mellen Press 1997).
Charles Betty is a research student at the University of Brighton. His thesis is an exploration of the health and social issues of older British expatriates on the Cost del Sol where he now lives. After a career in teaching he became Project Director of the Social Science Research Council Action Research Project into disadvantaged children. Subsequently he became a senior educational inspector with Nottinghamshire County Council. He is the author of several childrens books and a number of publications on community education.
Michael Cahill is Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Brighton. He is the author of The New Social Policy and his research interests encompass older people, transport and the environment.
Faal Daly obtained in 1990 a BSc from University of Modena in Italy and a Postgraduate Diploma and MA in European Studies in 1993-1995 from the University of West Bristol. He lived in Italy for almost ten years where he was actively involved with migrants and migration issues. As a research student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol he has conducted fieldwork amongst Tunisian workers in Modena. His PhD thesis will focus on the relationship between capital and migrant labour in Middle Italy.
Russell King is Professor of Geography and Dean of the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. He has published extensively in the field of migration in Southern Europe.
Dora Kostakopoulou is Jean Monnet lecturer in the Law and Politics of European integration at the University of East Anglia. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political theory and European integration.
Gabriella Lazaridis is a lecturer in Gender Relations and European issues at the Department of Political Science and Social Policy, University of Dundee. Her main research interests are: gender relations, human mobility from and into Southern Europe, Policies of the EU, agricultural development and womens work. She is an elected member of the ESAs executive board, has set up and is co-convenor of the European Sociological Associations (ESA) Regional Network on Southern European Societies. She is co-editor of Eldorado or Fortress (Macmillan) and Gender and Migration in Southern Europe (Berg). She is currently writing a book on Social Policy in Southern Europe to be published by Macmillan and researching into exclusion and citizenship in relation to self-employment practices amongst minorities in Greece (funded by the EU).
Isabel Rodrguez-Melguizo is a former postgraduate student at the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex.
Krystyna Romaniszyn is Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She is author of two books on international migration and economic anthropology: she has also written extensively on contemporary labour migration from the East to the West. She has a background in sociology and social anthropology.
Ann Singleton worked in local government policy oriented research for several years before moving in 1992 to work in the Migration Research Unit, University College London. She has specialised in the problems of using international migration statistics and currently works with the Eurostat Migration Team in Luxembourg. She is now a member of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Injustice, School for Policy Studies at Bristol University.
Nicos Trimikliniotis is a PhD candidate at the University of Greenwich. His thesis examines the interrelation between nationalism and the state in the production, perpetuation and resolution of ethnic conflict, with Cyprus as the case study. He is a regular columnist for a Cypriot national newspaper and has been involved in various campaigns against racism, nationalism and the promotion of friendship and co-operation between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. He has presented numerous papers at conferences and seminars on the Cyprus problem and its resolution. He holds a BA in Law and Economics from Oxford Polytechnic, an MA in Gender and Ethnic Studies from the University of Greenwich and is qualified as a Barrister at Law.