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Mr. Akash Pandey is a student of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. His research interests include foreign labor migration, conflict induced migration, human rights, international humanitarian law, peacebuilding, and power politics with a focus on interdisciplinary research. He is currently studying the push and pull factors that have influenced Nepalese citizens to join the Russian Army in its invasion of Ukraine.

Stefania Panebianco, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Catania, and Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair EUMedEA. Visiting professor at LUISS-Guido Carli, Rome since 2018; visiting at IBEI, Barcelona, in 2019 and at University Pompeu Fabra, in 2022. Co-editor of Global Affairs. Published in Third World Quarterly, International Politics, Geopolitics, Contemporary Italian Politics, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The International Spectator. Authored monographic books (Giuffré, EGEA, CASS) and edited books (Palgrave, Rubbettino, Frank Cass). Researcher of the PROTECT H2020 research project.

Current MPhil candidate in Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) and a 2020 Rhodes Scholar from the US. Graduated from Yale University in 2020 with a joint M.A. and B.A. in Political Science. Interested in social demography, survey methodology, identity, and the politics of marginalization.

Incoming PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University.

Emanuela Paoletti is Associate Editor at the journal Migration Studies. Since 2011 Emanuela has been working with UNHCR in Tunisia, Libya, Jordan and Ethiopia. Between 2018 and 2020, Emanuela collaborated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Previously she worked as Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University and at the International Migration Institute also at Oxford. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Oxford and her doctoral research focused on the Italian-Libyan agreements on migration. Her research appeared with, inter alia, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Political Studies and the Journal of North African Studies. Her Master was completed at the London School of Economics at the Development Studies Institute (now Department of International Development).

Apostolos G Papadopoulos has studied sociology in Greece (B.Sc. Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences) and in the UK (M.Sc (Econ), Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science) and holds a DPhil in Geography (University of Sussex). He was employed as researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), the University of Patras and the Agricultural University of Athens. He was elected Lecturer in the University of Ioannina where he served for five years. He was elected Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography in Harokopio University, where, currently, holds the position of Professor in Rural Sociology and Geography. In the same university, he has been Director of Postgraduate Studies of the M.Sc. entitled: “Applied Geography and Spatial Planning” (2009-2011), Vice-Rector of Economic Affairs and Development (2011-2015), and Dean of the School of Environment, Geography and Applied Economics (2017-2018).

He has coordinated as project leader, while also he worked as a senior researcher in, several research projects financed by the European Commission, the Greek State and other organizations. He has published numerous papers in international journals (Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy; Agriregionieuropa; Applied Geography; Autonomie Locali e Servizi Sociali; Environment and Planning C; Europa XXI; Frontiers in Sociology; International Review of Sociology; Italian Review of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Rural Cooperation; Journal of Rural Studies; Méditerranée; Migration Letters; Sociologia Ruralis; Southeast European and Black Sea Studies), in Greek academic journals (Γεωγραφίες; Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών; Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής Επιστήμης; Κοινωνιολογική Επιθεώρηση), collected volumes and conference proceedings. He has edited or co-edited eight collected volumes (two of them were published by Ashgate Publishers in 1999 and 2010) and co-authored one book. His research has been published in Greek, English, Italian and Portuguese.

He has been member of the Working Group on Migration coordinated by the Prime Minister Office (Greek Prime Minister Office –Official Gazette (FEK) Issue 1650/25-08-2011). He was appointed as member of the Advisory Board (2017-2020) of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), which is a European Research and Education Organization with its headquarters located in Paris; for the last two-year period (2019-2020) he was elected Chair of this scientific advisory body.

From the position of President of the Hellenic Sociological Association (HSS) he has undertaken the task to organize in Greece one of the largest social science congresses. He was the Chair of the LOC for the organization of the 13th ESA Conference Athens: “(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities”, 29 August to 1 September 2017. Consequently, he was elected member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the European Sociological Society (ESA) for two consecutive periods (2017-2019, 2019-2021) and Vice-President of External Affairs in the same organization for both periods.

Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the international peer reviewed journal Sociologia Ruralis for four years (2020-2023) and Associate Editor of the journal NEW MEDIT: Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. Moreover, he is member of the editorial board of the journals Migration Letters, Europa XXI and Κοινωνιολογική Επιθεώρηση; member of the international scientific board of the journals Border Studies, Social Studies [Studime Sociale], and Autonomie locali e servizi sociali; and member of the scientific board of the journal Social Cohesion and Development (Κοινωνική Συνοχή και Ανάπτυξη).

Angela Paparusso, demographer, is Researcher of the National Research Council at the "Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies" (CNR-IRPPS). She holds a doctorate in Demography (2016) from the Doctoral School in Statistical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome (title of the thesis: “Studying immigrant integration in Europe: civic rhetoric, citizenship policies and self-reported life satisfaction”). She graduated with honor in International Cooperation and Development, with a thesis on borders and migration in Europe that has been awarded by the Foundation “Roma Sapienza” for the “best master's degree in the discipline of Social Sciences”. She was also educated at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she obtained the “European Master in Demography” – degree of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD). She has been also visiting doctoral student at CERI SciencesPo. Currently, she also works for the Rome Chapter of the UNESCO Chair in “Population, Migrations and Development” and she is member the COST Action 16111 “International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities’ Survey Data Network”. She has teaching experiences in the academic courses of Demography and Development (Roma Tre University) and Sample Surveys (Unversity of Tuscia). Her main research interests focus on migration and integration policies and processes in Italy and Europe and subjective well-being in Italy and at European level.