Editorial 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.

Alice Szczepaniková [alice.szczepanikova(AT)gmail.com] obtained PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick. Before moving to the UK, she studied Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Her PhD dissertation "Constructing a Refugee: The State, NGOs and Gendered Experiences of Asylum in the Czech Republic" explores questions of agency, power and identity in the world of institutions that constitute the refugee system. In 2009, Alice was awarded a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is based in the Department of Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. She works on a project about the reconstruction of identities in exile and focuses on biographies of Chechen refugee women in Austria, Germany and Poland.

Fabian Georgi [fgeorg(AT)zedat.fu-berlin.de] studied political science at the Free University Berlin and the University of Kent (UK). He obtained his MA-level degree in Berlin with a thesis on "Migration Management in Europe", a detailed case-study on the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). From 2003 to 2005 he worked as a reseacher at the European Migration Centre in Berlin on two projects about ethnic minority mobilisation. He is currently holder of a PhD-scholarship from the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation. His PhD focuses on the role of international organisations in the "political project of migration management".

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.

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.

Eva Kočárková [eva.kocarkova(at)clovekvtisni.cz] graduated in general anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles´ University, Prague. She participated inapplied research projects on socially and culturally marginalized groups in the Czech Republic. She is a member of the Media 007 initiative that aims at promoting awareness of the Czech media in relation to foreigners, and religious and ethnic minorities. She is employed as a field worker for the People in Need Organization in Liberec.

The former coordinators of the Migration Online project include Hana Kabeleová, Jan Černík, Andrea Gerstnerová and Lukáš Krejčí.