About the speakers

Margherita Cusmano is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Coordinator of the “Migration and Borders” Research Area in the Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Her research investigates how people’s positions within the social structure shape both the substance of their political attitudes and their perceived legitimacy to voice them. By focusing on migration, her work first examines the extent to which migration backgrounds inform these political stances, particularly regarding economic inequality. Furthermore, she explores how migrant-origin individuals negotiate their entitlement to express political opinions, and under what conditions they are recognized as legitimate participants in public debate. To capture these complex dynamics, she employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative survey analyses with qualitative interviews and group discussions.

Monique Cremer is professor by special appointment of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam. Since March 1, 2020, Monique is chair of the Advisory Committee on Immigration Affairs, ACVZ. She hopes to help ensure that the ACVZ's sound advice continues to be at the heart of the migration debate.

Gianna Eick is ssociate Professor of Political Science (UD1) in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching is driven by a fascination for how globalization and European social integration are shaping societies as well as how people react to these changes through their social and political attitudes and behaviour.