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I am currently a PhD candidate in Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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.

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.

Gustav Lidén (PhD in Political Science, 2011) has his background in comparative politics with a specific interest in the local political arena. During 2012 and 2013 he was post doctoral fellow at the Department of Social Sciences at Mid Sweden University. Since 2014 Lidén is Associate Professor (docent) in political science at Mid Sweden University.

He has been a visting scholar at Åbo Akademi University (2012) and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2021).

His work has been published in journals such as Democratization, Journal of Refugee Studies, Local Government Studies and Policy Studies

His most recent research contribution is a monography titled Local Migration Policy - Governance Structures and Policy Output in Swedish Municipalities (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).

Lidén's research focus is directed towards the local political arena and is placed within these fields:
• Local migration and integration policy.
• Local governance and policy.

A Research Fellow at Monash University Malaysia.

Ilse van Liempt is Associate Professor in Urban Geography in the Human Geography Department and Research Leader of the UU wide strategic theme Migration and Societal Change. Previously she worked at the Institute for Ethnic and Migration Studies (IMES) in Amsterdam and at the Sussex Center for Migration Research (SCMR). Her PhD was published in 2007 as a book called Navigating Borders. Since then she has published widely on irregular migration, refugee migration, gender, public space, diversity and processes of in and exclusion more generally. Currently she works on a HERA project called 'The everyday experiences of young refugees and asylum seekers in public spaces', in which issues of refugee youth, public space and integration in Europe are explored in four cities: Amsterdam, Brussels, Newcastle and Leipzig. She is also involved in an Erasmus + project on precarious housing in Europe (PUSH). Ilse is Associate Editor at the Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG), board member of KWALON, a platform for qualitative researchers in the Netherlands where she is responsible for a monthly blog on qualitative research method related issues.

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.