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PhD Candidate at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) and at the Research Unit of Migration and Society (URMIS). Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations. She holds a Master of Sciences in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a Master of Arts in Conflict, Security, and Development from King’s College London. Her fields of interest include emigration policies, diasporas in conflict, and political transnationalism. Her research focuses on the transnational political activities organised by Latin American migrants living in Brussels and Paris.

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge is a Social Psychologist at the University of the West of England (UWE) who studies migration. She chairs the UWE Global Migration Network and convenes the annual Asylum Seeker and Refugee Wellbeing Conference at UWE. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked in International Development, and has conducted research in more than 25 countries. She has lived in Canada, Kenya, France, UK and Bangladesh.

Yong Li is a sociologist, post-doctoral fellow at the Triangle Laboratory, ENS de Lyon, France. He is research coordinator in the International Advanced Laboratory “Post-Western Sociology in Europe and in China” ENS Lyon/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration. His research interests include student mobility, career paths of skilled migrants, experiences of discrimination and racism of people of Asian origin in France, migrant entrepreneurship, social ramification of the food safety scandals in mainland China.

I'm a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. My PhD research focuses on PRC-born migrants' senses of belonging and civic engagement in Sydney. I have also been involved in research projects related to international student mobility in Hong Kong and the UK, and internal educational migration in China.

I am a Research Fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland, focusing on ethnicity and digital media. With a background in area and cultural studies, I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki in 2022. My PhD dissertation examined the meanings of Sweden-Finnishness in social media campaigns and activism. My current research project examines the use of digital platforms by Finnish expatriates/diaspora and their influence on identity, belonging, and nationhood.

Ioannis Limnios-Sekeris obtained his Ph.D. in 2023 from the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University, Greece. His Ph.D. research deals with the relationship between the specialised on migration international organisations, and the private sector between 1951 and 1980. In 2013 he completed his MA Thesis at the University of Crete, Greece on the topic of the post-war emigration of Greeks to Australia. At the same University, he completed his undergraduate studies in Contemporary History in 2010. Ioannis’ research interests focus on post-war migration; the history of international organisations; maritime history and transport history. His publications include articles on post-war Greek emigration to Australia; Australia’s post-war immigration policy; the role of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration(ICEM) in the management of post-war migration and the migrant sea and air traffic.