Advisory Board

Marek Čaněk [marek_canek(AT)yaho.com] graduated in sociology at the Central European University and in international relations at Charles University. His MA thesis concerned new Slovak migration to the Czech Republic based on the case of Slovak students (pdf file). From 2004 to 2008 he was the migrationonline.cz coordinator. Currently he is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science of Charles University specialising in labour migration control in the Czech Republic.

Heikki Kerkkänen [heikki.kerkkanen(AT)gmail.com] graduated in sociology from the University of Jyväskylä. His master's thesis concerned municipal integration of refugees in the Jyväskylä region. He is currently a PhD student at the faculty of social sciences at the Helsinki University. His research is focusing on Finnish state's immigration and immigrant policy and the governmental rationality involved in political organizing of differences. He is also working in an NGO called Miessakit ry where he focuses on mutual integration of Finnish and immigrant men.

Myroslava Keryk [m_keryk(at)yahoo.com] obtained her MA in history from the Ivan Franko L’viv National University and the Central European University. She is currently studying for her PhD at the Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is interested in the problem of labour migration and migration policy in Ukraine and Poland.

Radka Klvaňová [radka.klvanova(AT)gmail.com] studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno and also graduated from the MA programme IMPALLA. In her diploma thesis she studied migration strategies of Armenian immigrants in Brno (pdf). She is currently a PhD candidate at FSS MU where she is also active in the Institute for Research on Social Reproduction and Integration (http://ivris.fss.muni.cz). Her research focuses on inclusion/exclusion of migrants from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine in the transnational perspective. She is also interested in issues concerning refugees in Central and Eastern Europe and in migration policy.

Alena Pařízková studied social and cultural anthropology (Master degree) at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. In her diploma thesis she focused on labour migration from the Czech Republic. She is currently completing her studies of ethnology at the same faculty. Her current research interest is labour migration.

Michal Šipoš received his MA degree at the Philosophical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining post-modern theories of state with the methodological tradition of urban sociology, Michal's project explores the everyday life of Chechen men in a Polish town theorizing on what it means when loss, together with impoverishment, dictate everyday realities.

The following people were the Advisory Board members in the past: Kateřina Březinová, Oana Ciobanu, Jan Černík, Fabian Georgi, Jan Grill, Jakub Grygar, Jakob Hurrle, Kateřina Janků, Eva Kočárková, Cosmin Radu, Alice Szczepaniková, Alexandra Szöke, Pavel Uhl.