Nasar Meer is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow, and Principal Investigator of the Horizon 2020 funded Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIM-ER). He was previously Professor of Comparative Citizenship and Social Policy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Strathclyde University.