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Received: 20 April 2018

Accepted: 26 December 2018

First Online: 19 March 2019

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: <i>Simone Castellani</i> is postdoctoral research fellow at the University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) carrying out a project on the new Portuguese migrations toward Germany. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Seville, Spain) and in Migration and Intercultural Processes (University of Genoa, Italy). He was visiting fellow and at the INAH (Mexico), CONICET (Argentina), University of Santa Caterina (Brazil), University of Bielefeld and University of Freiburg (Germany), Wellesley College (US), FLACSO-Ecuador and University of Sussex (UK). His topics of research are related with the international migratory processes. Specifically, he has studied the Latino American migration flows toward Europe, paying particular attention to the so-called second generation, and the new Southern European migration flows toward Germany during the last economic recession. In the recent past he integrated the UPWEB-NORFACE project team which focuses on the practices of welfare bricolage in contexts marked by high super-diversity. Further, he collaborated with the Global Social Protection project, leaded by the Transnational Studies Initiative at the University of Harvard, which investigate transnational social protection focusing on the access to the health care of Ecuadorian migrants in US, Italy, Spain and Ecuador. Last publications: (2018) “Sliding down. New Spanish and Italian migrants’ labour insertion” in <i>Sociologia del lavoro, 149, 77–93</i>; with Lagomarsino (2016) “The unseen protagonists. Ecuadorians’ daughters between Ecuador and Southern Europe”, <i>Social Identities, 22(3), 291–306</i>; (2016) “Orgullo mestizo. El baloncesto como valorización de la diferencia entre hijos de inmigrantes en Sevilla”, <i>Studi Emigrazione, 53(203).</i><i>Emma Martín-Díaz</i> is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville. She is specialized in Migration, Ethnic Relationships and Public Policies. She obtained her MA Anthropology at the University of Seville in 1985, with a thesis on migrants returning from Western Europe to rural Andalusia. Her PhD thesis, (1988), focused on Andalusian immigrants in Cataluña, interethnic relationships and integration policies, and won the prize “Blas Infante” for the best original research on Social Studies in Andalusia in 1991. Since 1995 she has been carrying out research on “New Immigration” in Spain. The topics include migration, agriculture and labour markets in Mediterranean Spain, (1999, 2004) migration and citizenship (1999, 2003), migration and domestic services, (2002) migration and prostitution (2004) migration and transnational social networks (2007) and the ‘second generation’ (2009-) She participates in several masters and doctorates on migration, ethnicity, gender, development, citizenship and Human Rights at different Universities in Europe and Latin America. Last selected publications: with Bermúdez, A. (2017) “The Multilevel Governance of “Refuge”: Bringing Together Institutional and Civil Society Responses in Europe”, in Haines, D.; Howell, J. and Keles, F. (eds) <i>Maintaining Refuge: Anthropological Reflections in Uncertain Times</i>. CORI, American Anthropological Association; with Roca Martínez, B. (2016) “Solidarity networks of Spanish migrants in the UK and Germany: The emergence of interstitial trade unionism”. <i>Critical Sociology</i>; with Cuberos Gallardo (2016) “Public spaces and immigration in Seville: building citizenship or reproducing power relationships?”, <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies</i>, 39(6): 1089–1105.

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