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Dr Clelia Clini is a research associate on the project “Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination (MMPI): British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition”. She has extensive teaching and research experience in the field of Migration, Media, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies. Her research interests include: Migration and Diaspora Studies; forced displacement, arts and mental health; migration, transnational networks and experiences of belonging; narratives of identity and belonging in South Asian diasporic literature and films; immigrants’ experiences in Italy in relation to cinema, media and music.

Ahmet Ertan Çölgeçen is a Ph.D. candidate at Hacettepe University Institute of Turkish Studies. He has published on everyday forms of resistance, precarization, deinstitutionalization, irregular migration and informal work. He is currently working on his dissertation on the transnationalization of the Uyghur diaspora in Turkey and Germany.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology (Complutense University Madrid). Her research fields are the Migration Studies (Latin American migration, Andean migration, transnational perspective and gender, new mobilities and new Spanish migration, asylum and gender) and Development Studies. She has conducted fieldwork in Ecuador, Cape Vert, Spain and the UK. She has been Visiting Scholar at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), FLACSO-Ecuador, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law and the Institute Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) . Furthermore, she has been Prometeo Researcher 2013-2014 in Ecuador. Finally, she has published five books authored and co-authored on migration and development and more than 30 national and international publications specialized (scientific articles and book chapters).

I am a social and political psychologist working through critical approches (anticolonial, CRT, liberation psychology among others). My research focus on collective action, identity, migration, discrimination by prioritizing a research praxis from below, through lay epistemologies of oppressed but resisting people and communities. I refused to be fully encapsulated in the neoliberal university system. Instead, through scientific affiliations, I try to conduct independent research with small academic grants. I also do translations to survive economically and to support my communities.

Associate Professor (with Agregação) in the Portuguese and Romance Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, since 1986. Phd in Comparative Literature ( 1998) , and tenure in Romance Literatures and Cultures ( On Transitive Literature and Nomadic Subjects, 2010]. In recent years, her research has been dedicated mainly to questions of interculturality and to literary and other representations of migration and exile .

Gianni D’Amato is Professor at the University of Neuchâtel, Director of the ‘NCCR – On the move’, and Head of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM). His main foci are addressing citizenship, mobility, populism, and the history of migration. Recent contributions in English include “Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus”, Migration Studies, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 631–649, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad023 (together with Marco Bitschnau), “Politicising immigration in times of crisis: empirical evidence from Switzerland”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1936471 (together with Marco Bitschnau, Leslie Ader and Didier Ruedin), and “The Battle over Rights in Switzerland. Populist Arguments against International Law”, in: Pieter Bevelander and Ruth Wodak (Eds.), Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist, and Global Challenges (259-280). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. (see: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2525-4608)

Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies, director of the MAPS (Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux) and project leader in the nccr-on the move, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is interested in understanding processes of mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion or gender. She is the co-director of the Standing Committee of “Reflexivities in migration studies” of IMISCOE https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/927-reflexive-migr….

Shannon Damery earned her PhD in December 2020 and has been a researcher in the CEDEM since 2013. Her manuscript is entitled, “At home 'outside': Young migrants aligning their 'home orbits' in the city of Brussels". She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on two international projects: The Horizion 2020 Project CHILD UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation) and UNIC (Unexpected Inclusions: Migration, Mobility and the Open City) led by the University of Geneva (IRS) and the University of Liège (CEDEM-IRSS) as part of the Lead Agency programme (SNF-FNSR). Her doctorate was part of the INTEGRIM ITN in which she was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the framework of the 7FP Training Network “Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies.” Her research focuses on how young migrants’ official migratory status impacts their daily lives. She has experience in social work and earned her M.A. in Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. This degree was part of the European partnership program: CREOLE: Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes. She studied at the University of Vienna and conducted research at two sites: a refugee integration facility and the Vienna Youth and Family Offices. Her research interests include refugee issues, forced migration, home and homemaking, youth and childhood studies, arts and integration, and activism and political participation.

I am a Sociologist researching on migration. Presently, I am moderating a webinar series on covid and mobility called Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future (https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/webinare/2020-corona-conversa…) hosted by the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne and supported by the DAAD.
My current interest is in future of migration from the perspective of transnational practices of Indian women migrants in Germany especially those migrating under EU Blue Card scheme and for higher education. Significant rise in their arrival is changing the social-cultural landscape in Germany as these young women are visible in German public spaces, white-collar employees, often bring their male dependent partners and effectively combine 'home-here' practices to invent homeland in Germany.

I am also interested in migration-covid interface from the perspective of how does post-covid truth shape the future of migration.