Excluding Diversity Through Intersectional Borderings: Politics, Policies and Daily Lives

Prof. Laura Merla is a Sociologist with a background in Political science, and a professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) where she is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE). She is also a member of the Belgian Royal Academy, and the Vice-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Migration. Her main research areas are the sociology of the family; migration, transnational families and care; ageing; social policies; and gender and masculinities.

Prof. Sarah Murru is a Sociologist with a background in Political sciences, and a professor at KU Leuven (Belgium). She is a member of the Center for Sociological Research (CeSO - KU Leuven), a research associate to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Families and Sexualities (CIRFASE) at UCLouvain, and co-coordinator of the international Resistance Studies Network. Her expertise lies in the Sociology of Diversity, Resistance Studies, and Gender Studies, especially Feminist research and Institutional Ethnography. She has worked on youth and family research, as well as on mobility and migration. As an institutional ethnographer, she is interested in understanding how institutions socially organize people's everyday lives.

At the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy of Ghent University (Belgium), Dr. Giacomo Orsini coordinates the inter-university research consortium REFUFAM exploring how policy and administrative complexity impact refugee families 'inclusion pathways in Belgium, and the international thematic network DERM concerned with the Decolonization of Education and Research on Migration. He is also lecturer on migration, race, ethnicity and the politics of diversity at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In the past, Orsini has conducted studies on unaccompanied minors' migration into Europe and the structural violence they face along their trajectories, institutional racism within family reunification in Belgium, and Europe's external border management. His scholarship concentrates on the (coloniality of the) everyday governance of migration and the multiplication of tangible and intangible borders of (racist) exclusion and inclusion.

Dr Tanja Vuckovic Juros is a Sociologist working at the intersections of cultural and political sociology. She is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty at the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) where she is finalizing a project on how citizens respond to gender and sexuality messages in different socio-cultural contexts. Her work often examines relations between institutional frameworks, normative orders, and the active-meaning making of individuals, focusing most recently on families and sexualities, and anti-gender mobilizations. She is currently a board member of the Euroepan Sociological Association's Research Network Sexuality and a member of a COST action LGBTI+ Social and Economic (in)equalities.

教授勞拉·梅爾拉（Laura Merla）是一位社會學家，擁有政治學背景，現任比利時魯汶大學的教授，並擔任家庭與性別跨學科研究中心（CIRFASE）的主任。她也是比利時皇家學院的成員，以及國際社會學協會移民社會學研究委員會的副主席。她的主要研究領域包括家庭社會學、移民、跨國家庭與照護、老齡化、社會政策，以及性別與男性氣質。

教授莎拉·穆魯（Sarah Murru）是一位社會學家，擁有政治科學背景，現任比利時KU Leuven大學的教授。她是KU Leuven社會學研究中心（CeSO）的成員，並擔任魯汶大學家庭與性別跨學科研究中心（CIRFASE）的研究助理，以及國際抵抗研究網絡的共同協調人。她的專長在於多樣性社會學、抵抗研究和性別研究，特別是女性主義研究和制度民族誌。她曾從事青年與家庭研究，以及流動性和移民相關的研究。作為一名制度民族誌學者，她對於理解機構如何社會組織人們的日常生活感興趣。

在比利時根特大學社會工作與社會教育系，賈科莫·奧爾西尼（Giacomo Orsini）博士協調跨大學研究聯盟REFUFAM，探討政策與行政複雜性如何影響難民家庭在比利時的融入途徑，以及國際主題網絡DERM，關注教育與移民研究的去殖民化。他同時在布魯塞爾自由大學教授移民、種族、族裔及多樣性政治的課程。過去，奧爾西尼曾研究無陪伴未成年人的移民進入歐洲及其在過程中面臨的結構性暴力、比利時家庭團聚中的制度性種族主義，以及歐洲的外部邊界管理。他的學術研究集中於移民的日常治理（殖民性）及（種族）排斥與包容的具體與抽象邊界的多重化。

坦雅·武科維奇·尤羅斯（Tanja Vuckovic Juros）博士是一位社會學家，專注於文化與政治社會學的交集。她是克羅埃西亞薩格勒布大學人文與社會科學院的瑪麗·斯克沃多夫斯卡-居里（Marie Sklodowska-Curie, MSCA）博士後研究員，正在完成一個關於公民如何在不同社會文化背景下回應性別與性取向訊息的項目。她的研究經常檢視制度框架、規範秩序與個體的主動意義建構之間的關係，最近專注於家庭與性別，以及反性別動員。她目前是歐洲社會學協會性別研究網絡的董事會成員，並參與COST行動LGBTI+社會與經濟（不）平等。