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Experienced researcher with expertise in the fields of East Asian communities in Europe, education, happiness and multilingualism. I have extensive fieldwork experience in Germany and Japan, as well as mixed method data collection, management and analysis. My works are fully funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Individual Research Grant, 2018-2021) and the European Commission (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, 2021-2023).

Tongming is a PhD student in sociology and social policy within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in diversity and interdisciplinary. She currently focuses on rural-urban migration, return migration, labour migration and rural tourism. She does research in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Syracuse University, NY-USA.
Studying Chinese emigration and investment in West Africa.

Wanyana has over 10 years of progressively relevant experience in policy analysis and research in the areas of gender, peace, and international security law and policy. Wanyana's Migration research has analysed the complex relationship between migration and corruption, highlighting how corruption intersects with other factors such as race, religion, and economic status to shape the differential experiences of migrant women and men. She has also studied the limitations in European and International migration legal regimes in providing robust and non-discriminatory protections for migrants.

I am a researcher in the Child Health and Parenting (CHAP) research group at Uppsala University currently managing an evaluation of Teaching Recovery Techniques - a community group therapy intervention for refugee children, youth and families reporting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Ingmar Weber is the research director of the Social Computing Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). His interdisciplinary research looks at what online user-generated data can tell us about the offline world and society at large. Particular topics of interest include (i) monitoring international migration, (ii) tracking digital gender gaps, and (iii) mapping poverty.

Ingmar Weber is the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. His interdisciplinary research uses large amounts of online data from social media and other sources to study human behavior. Particular topics of interest include quantifying international migration using digital methods, tracking digital gender gaps, mapping social inequalities, and precision public health. Before joining the Qatar Computing Research Institute he studied and worked at the University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Yahoo Research. Ingmar’s research has been cited over 7000 times and he serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Natasha Webster is a researcher at the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. She is interested in gender, migration and work(ing)-life practices. Natasha's current research focuses on feminist economic geography by exploring the role of platform-mediatted work-social practices in migration and integration. Natasha is currently co-editing a special issue for Globalizations on transnational migrant entrepreneurs. Natasha, following her interests of gender in the workplace, co-edited a 2019 special issue on Early Career Women in Geography for Geografiska Annaler B. Natasha is a Book Review Editor for Emotion, Space and Society and is part of the editorial board for Digital Geography and Society.

PhD in Human Geography (Stockholm University), M.Sc.Pl Specialization in Urban Planning (University of Toronto), BA Honours in Human Geography (Queen’s University, Canada)

I am working as PostDoc at the Chair of Cultural Geography and Development Research at the Institute of Geography of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where I am focusing on the topics immigration to rural areas, rural tourism and regional development. I graduated in Cultural Geography from the same university and hold a B.A. and M.A. (with distinction) degree as well as a PhD. I am active member of the “Working Group Rural Spaces” (“Arbeitskreis Ländliche Räume”) and "Working Group Geographical Migration Research" (Arbeitskreis Geographische Migrationsforschung) within the German Association of Geography (DGfG). Since 2016, I am also member of the German “Refugee Research Network” (“Netzwerk Fluchtforschung”).