Welcoming newly arrived refugees in the classroom

Cosmin Ionut Nada a European PhD in Educational Sciences, and is FCT-funded Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education at University of Porto. Cosmin’s research expertise and interests are linked to: migration, diversity and inclusion in education, early school leaving, social justice, educational policies, and multicultural learning. He is currently Administrative Coordinator of NESET and member of the Editorial Board of the European Toolkit for Schools, where he provides advice to the European Commission on how to promote inclusive education. 

Sara Amadasi is research fellow in the Department of Studies on Language and Culture, at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her research interests concern the promotion of children’s participation, intercultural communication and transnational migrations. Together with Professor Adrian Holliday, she is the author of the book ‘Making Sense of the Intercultural. Finding DeCentred Threads’, Routledge. 

Mateja Sedmak, PhD in Sociology, is Principal Research Associate and the Head of the Institute for Social Sciences at the Science and Research Centre Koper. Her research interests include ethnic and intercultural studies, migration, management of cultural diversity, and topics in sociology of everyday life and sociology of the family. She is the Head of the Section for Intercultural Studies at Slovenian Sociological Society (SSD) and the leader of many national and international projects, including the MiCREATE project - Migrant Children and Communities and A Transforming Europe, funded by the Research and Innovation Grant Scheme, Horizon 2020 program.

Barbara Gornik is a Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre of Koper. Her research interests are migration, nationalism and human rights, which she studies using the anthropology of human rights and discourse theory as basic theoretical standpoints to explain the implementation and interpretation of human rights as an effect of knowledge and power relations.  She works as an academic co-coordinator of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action 'Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe' (MiCREATE). Barbara Gornik has published work dealing with asylum, refugees, migrant children, international human rights law, Erased residents of Slovenia, governmentality and anthropology of human rights.