Samuel Bennett is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research centres around discursive constructions of migrant integration, (non)belonging, exclusion, and legitimisation, with a focus on UK political actors. He is currently Chair of the CADAAD network and co-editor of Journal of Language & Politics. He is the author of Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse (2018), along with several chapters in edited volumes and articles in respected journals, including Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. Away from academia, he has been involved in immigration, community building, and empowerment charities for over twenty years, including as a research intern at the British Refugee Council, a refugee mentor, development education coordinator, and a board member of Migrant Info Point, an immigration charity in Poland.