The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children

Barbara Gornik is a Senior Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Her main research interests are anthropology, human and children's rights, nationalism, and child migration. Until June 2022 she worked as Academic Co-coordinator of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe" (MiCREATE). In 2021, she became a member of the Scientific Research Council for Humanities, a permanent expert body of the Slovenian Research Agency. She is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the LSE's Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. Zorana Medaric is a sociologist and a research associate at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Her research interests include migration, childhood studies, qualitative research and child-centred approaches, with a particular focus on the experiences of children in migration contexts. From 2009 to 2021 she was a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Tourism Studies at the University of Primorska. As a researcher, she has been involved in various national and international projects, including Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE), Europe's first longitudinal comparative birth cohort study of children's and young people's wellbeing. Mateja Sedmak is Principal Research Associate and the Head of the Institute for Social Sciences at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Her research interests include ethnic and intercultural studies, migration and integration, sociology of everyday life and sociology of family. She is Vice President of the Slovenian Sociological Association and the head of the Section for Intercultural Studies. She has led many international projects, including the "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe" (MiCREATE) RIA Horizon 2020 project. She is also National Coordinator of "Growing Up in Digital Europe" (GUIDE) research infrastructure, Europe's first longitudinal cross-national birth cohort study.