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Manuela Bojadžijev Editor

Manuela Bojadžijev is Professor at Humboldt University Berlin's Institute of European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Migration Research. She is a permanent fellow at Frankfurt's Institut für Sozialforschung. Her work examines racism and migration from global perspectives, focusing on how social change manifests through representations of migration. Through collaborative projects, she investigates mobility transformations in relation to digitalization and logistics, particularly in urban spaces. Her research bridges conceptual questions of migration with lived experiences in migration societies.

Robin Celikates is Professor of Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Centre for Social Critique Berlin. He is a permanent fellow at Frankfurt's Institut für Sozialforschung and co-directs the "Transforming Solidarities" research project. Previously at the University of Amsterdam and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, his research focuses on critical theory, civil disobedience, democratic theory, migration, and racism.

Paul Mecheril is Professors of Educational Science with a focus on Migration at Bielefeld University, Germany. With a background in psychology and philosophy, his academic journey includes positions at the universities of Innsbruck and Oldenburg, where he specialized in intercultural learning and education in migration societies. His work examines the intersection of education, migration, and social change.