A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity, and Europe

Dr Timofey Agarin is a Lecturer in Politics and Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University, Belfast. He is particularly interested in relationships between the state and society, interrelations between the majority and the minority, issues relating to non-discrimination in the wider Europe and the impact of European integration broadly conceived on societal change. At the heart of it, his interest in ethnic politics and their impact on transition from communism is concerned with non-discrimination, minority protection, migration, and civil society. He is currently a principle investigator on the ESRC-funded project Exclusion Amid Inclusion: Power-Sharing and Non-Dominant Minorities and is leading several research networks, PSA Specialist Group "Ethnopolitics" and IPSA Research Committee "Politics and Ethnicity". Nevena Nancheva is a Lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Human Rights at Kingston University, London, and a researcher at the Centre for Research on Communities, Identities and Difference. She has written on European integration, nationalism, national minorities, and refugee migration. Her 2016-2017 research project EU Migrants in the UK: Political Community, Identity and Security is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust. She is the co-founder of an academic research network on EU migration (eu-migrants.net).