Dr Franz Bernhardt, an ESRC Wales DTP Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swansea University in the Department of Geography, and Mila Sanchez, a Joint PhD student at Swansea University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne are organising and hosting the conference titled ‘Migration, Mobilities and Emerging Political Spaces’ at Swansea University.
Dr Franz Bernhardt is an ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at Swansea University. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from Swansea University, examining how urban, regional, and national imaginaries of community effect commitments of hospitality towards migrants. His research has been published in the peer- reviewed journal Cultural Geographies and will appear in a book chapter in the edited collection Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces. His current postdoctoral project examines how the political strive for separatism and national independence effects attitudes towards migration and the politics of asylum of the sovereign nation state.
Contact: franz.bernhardt@swansea.ac.uk
https://walesdtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral-fellow-franz-bernhardt/
Mila Sanchez is a Geography PhD student working on the role of migrants from the new EU Member States in the process of regional integration in Europe. Her research focused on the construction of a European space from below through the study of migrants' cultural capital and spatial representations. Her PhD is funded by the Labex Dynamite via a joint program between Swansea University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is also a fellow of the Institute Convergence Migrations.
Contact: 996082@swansea.ac.uk
https://www.prodig.cnrs.fr/mila-sanchez/