Hilde Lidén is a research Professor emeritus at the Institute for Social Research (Norway). Liden holds a PhD in social anthropology. Her research interests are transnational migration, national minorities, childhood and family research, including the life chances and integration of children of immigrants. In the last few years her research has mainly been on rights dilemmas in international and national policies on migration management, family life and citizenship. Her latest publications include ‘Reinforcing or Obscuring Refugee Rights? The Roles of Vulnerability in Norwegian Asylum Practices’, in Leboeuf, Luc; Brun, Catherine; Liden, Hilde; Marchetti, Sabrina; Nakache, Delphine; and Sarolea, Sylvie (eds), Between Protection and Harm. Contested Vulnerabilities in Asylum Law and Bureaucracies (Cham: Springer, IMISCOE Research Series, 2024) (co-authored with Jessica Schultz).

Maria Maalouf is a researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (Beirut, Lebanon and Cambridge, United Kingdom). She has a Master’s degree in strategic research from the Lebanese University, focusing on the legal and practical framework of the UNHCR within the framework of Lebanese sovereignty. Her work with CLS also includes migration and displacement, social movements, policy and time, and education themes. Her latest publications include ‘Negotiating Multiple Meanings of Vulnerabilities in Lebanon’s Compounded Crises: Refugees’ Encounters with Frameworks and Institutions’ in Leboeuf, Luc; Brun, Catherine; Liden, Hilde; Marchetti, Sabrina; Nakache, Delphine; and Sarolea, Sylvie (eds), Between Protection and Harm. Contested Vulnerabilities in Asylum Law and Bureaucracies (Cham: Springer, IMISCOE Research Series, 2024) (co-authored with Cathrine Brun).

Denise Venturi is a Ph.D. researcher in Public International Law at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). Her research investigates the use of the concept of vulnerability in the legal discourse in relation to asylum claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity. She holds a Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the Global Campus of Human Rights (Italy and Belgium), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Immigration Law and a Master Degree in Law from the University of Florence (Italy). She has been visiting researcher at the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany), and the University of Zurich (Switzerland). She is currently working for UNHCR on EU legal and policy matters, and she has previously worked with the UN Agency in various protection roles in Europe with focus on capacity development, RSD, SOGI refugees and judicial engagement. Previously, she has worked on strategic litigation on asylum and refugee law as a Legal Officer at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles and in various NGOs, and as a lawyer (avvocata) at the Bar of Florence (Italy). Her latest publications include ‘Beyond the Rainbow? An Intersectional Analysis of the Vulnerabilities faced by LGBTIQ+ Asylum-Seekers’, European Journal on Migration and Law (2023) as part of the special issue entitled Looking at the Vulnerabilities of Migrants Seeking Protection through an Intersectional Prism, and that was edited by Raimondo, F.; Leboeuf, L. and Venturi, D.).

Luc Leboeuf is a F.R.S.-FNRS scientific collaborator at the University of Liège (Belgium). Prior to joining the University of Liège in October 2024, Luc was a Head of research group at the Max Planck institute for social anthropology (Germany), which he first joined as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017. He is also a guest professor in the law faculty of the catholic university of Louvain, where he teaches classes in EU law and migration law. Leboeuf holds a PhD in EU migration law since 2015. He has held various teaching and visiting research positions, including at the university of Antwerp, the Max Planck institute Luxembourg for procedural law, and the refugee studies centre at the university of Oxford. His research interests are in European migration laws, which he analyses from an interdisciplinary perspective that combines doctrinal analyses with empirical research methods, in view of reaching a better understanding of how the normative framework in the field is made and implemented. Luc also practiced asylum and migration law as a lawyer (‘Avocat’) in Belgium. His latest publications include ‘The Travels and Transformations of ‘Vulnerability’: From an Ethical and Analytical Concept to a Legal and Bureaucratic Label’, in Leboeuf, Luc; Brun, Catherine; Liden, Hilde; Marchetti, Sabrina; Nakache, Delphine; and Sarolea, Sylvie (eds), Between Protection and Harm. Contested Vulnerabilities in Asylum Law and Bureaucracies (Cham: Springer, IMISCOE Research Series, 2024).