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Community Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways: global refugee resettlement movements driven by local actors
Editors
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Jenny Phillimore
University of Birmingham, UK Jenny Phillimore, PhD, is Professor of Migration and Superdiversity. She was founder Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is a Social Policy Analyst who has spent 25 years researching refugee integration and has published widely in leading journals. She completed an independent evaluation of the Community Sponsorship Programme and has advised policymakers in the UK, Europe and Canada on Sponsorship. She was co-author of the UK’s refugee Indicators of Integration (2019), and she leads the NODE UK/Japan research network.
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Marisol Reyes Soto
University of Birmingham, UK Marisol Reyes Soto, PhD, is a research fellow of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity. She was the research leader of a formative evaluation of the UK Community Sponsorship Scheme directed by Professor Jenny Phillimore from 2017 to 2021. She produced special reports and policy briefs on the motivations and experience of the civil society organisations, volunteers and authorities involved in the UK Community Sponsorship. Recently, she coordinated the evaluations of the sponsorship programmes of six European countries and lead an evaluation of the charity ICMCE-Europe/Share-Network.
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Gabriella D'Avino
University of Birmingham, UK Gabriella D’Avino is undertaking a PhD in Social Policy funded by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP. Her PhD looks at the social networks of refugees resettled in the UK through the Community Sponsorship Scheme and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. She has researched refugee resettlement and community sponsorship programmes for the Home Office in the UK, the SHARE QSN project in Europe and the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub in Canada. She recently completed an evaluation project commissioned by the charity Porticus, assessing ICMC Europe/Share Network’s change strategies.
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Natasha Nicholls
University of Birmingham, UK Natasha Nicholls is currently undertaking a Global Challenges funded PhD in Social Policy at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity based at the University of Birmingham. Her PhD focuses on the volunteers in the UK Community Sponsorship scheme. Specifically, it explores the effect of time on the roles held by the CS volunteers and how engagement with CS impacts the volunteers after the formal two-year period of support has ended. Her PhD completes in spring 2024.
