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Adrien Beauduin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Budapest. He holds Masters degrees in Central and East European Studies from University College London, Charles University, and the College of Europe. His current research is on the gendered aspects of anti-migrant / anti-Islam movements’ discourses in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. Email: beauduin_adrien@phd.ceu.edu

Elissa Helms is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University. Her research, teaching, and publications have focused on the intersection of gender and nationalism in the former Yugoslavia, women’s activism, and representations of symbolic borders. She is currently conducting research on local responses to migration along the Balkan Route with a focus on Bosnia-Herzegovina. Among other publications, she is the author of Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2013) and co-editor of The New Bosnian Mosaic: Memories, Identities, and Moral Claims in a Post-war Society (Ashgate, 2007). Email: helmse@ceu.edu

Sabrina Paillé is a PhD candidate in Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada, where she is also pursuing a Graduate diploma program in German and European studies. In 2018, she was a Visiting Student in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Budapest. Her research focuses on nationalism, right-wing populist movements and anti-immigration reactions in contemporary Europe. She is on the governing board of the European Community Studies Association – Canada’s Young Researchers Network. Email: spaille@yorku.ca

Sara Swerdlyk is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Budapest. Her doctoral project is a multi-sited ethnography of Hungarian Roma seeking asylum in Canada: this research uses the study of Romani marginalization and migration as an entry-point for making sense of how the parameters of class and citizenship are being redrawn in the current global system. Most recently, Sara was a visiting scholar in the Anthropology department at the University of Toronto and course instructor in Sociology and History at Humber College in Toronto. Her research interests include political economy, borders, global ethnography, and postsocialism. Email: swerdlyk_sara@phd.ceu.edu

This is a roundtable proposal with four contributions.