Dr Jean-Michel Lafleur is Research Professor at the University of Liège and Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). He is also Associate Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM). His research interests lie particularly in the areas of transnationalism, EU mobility and social protection. In 2015, he was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a project entitled “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (Post)Crisis Europe” (MiTSoPro) upon which this volume is based. Dr Daniela Vintila is a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC) project “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (Post)Crisis Europe” at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests lie particularly in the areas of comparative politics, citizenship, EU studies, and international migration. Currently, she is chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity, co-convenor of the IMISCOE Standing Committee Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation and vice-chair of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee on European Unification.
