Olga Tkach is Docent in Migration and Welfare Research and researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on migration, feminist and migration studies of home, housing and neighbour relations. She is part of the project Life‐Breaking and Life‐Making: A Research Project on Social Reproduction and Survival in Times of Collapse (Kone Foundation, 2023–2026). Her work has appeared in Demokratizatsiya, Gender & Society, International Migration Review, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Social Inclusion, and Space & Culture. Tkach is a leader of the COMU Research Network. She is also an Associate Editor of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research (Helsinki University Press).

Pekka Tuominen is a social and cultural anthropologist specialising in urban transformation, the sociocultural qualities of space, and the moral dimensions of urbanity. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki His current research concentrates on segregation, and citizen participation in Helsinki.

Jutta Juvenius holds a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Helsinki. In her dissertation Juvenius examined the entanglements between home, markets and the Nordic welfare state using the tools of political and cultural sociology. Juvenius’ main research interests are twofold; First, she’s interested in home as a site bringing together large-scale societal developments with the most personal sphere of one’s life. Second, theoretically Juvenius’ work draws on valuation studies, particularly American cultural sociology and French pragmatism. With these tools, she aims to understand how people’s divergent interests can be reconciled in the urban space, following the grand tradition of urban sociology.

Xinwei Zhang is a doctoral researcher in sociology within the Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ) at the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences. Combining anthropology, communication, and sociology, Xinwei examines the globalization of food, East Asian migration, and youth culture. Xinwei's migration-focused scholarship spans immigrant entrepreneurs, diaspora networks, and transnational families. She investigates how economic and cultural drivers shape migration processes and migration decision.