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I am a professor at the Saint Louis University (SLU) School of Advanced Studies (SAS). I am involved in the clinical and research supervision for Masters and PhD Psychology candidates. My research interests are child abuse, depression and anxiety, trauma and resilience, parenting and parental wellbeing, and stigma particularly among IP populations.

Phd Candidate in International Relations and Master in Geography at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Defense Analyst and Internationalist from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Research assistant for a project on the far-right and multilateralism in Latin America (MUDRAL).

Research interests: Climate migration; forced migration by narcoviolence; border control; migratory flows from Central America to United States.

Meriç Çağlar is a researcher specializing in forced migration and gender studies. She completed her doctoral studies in Gender Studies at CEU ( Austria). She has worked as a gender and forced migration researcher in various European institutions such as the IDS (Sussex) and IHEID (Geneva) and held fellowship positions in reputable academic institutions such as Bielefeld University (DAAD scholar), IWM (Vienna), and MiReKoc (Istanbul).
Her research interests lie in the areas of gender and asylum, intersectionality in migration studies, refugee protection and integration in Turkey, and migrant deservingness.

Muhip Caglidil is a migration researcher and data collection expert with experience in humanitarian aid and emergency operations. Caglidil specializes in data collection solutions in hard-to-reach areas and conducting rapid needs assessments. Caglidil holds an M.A degree in International Relations from Central European University and previously worked at International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save The Children International in Germany, Turkey and Iraq.

I am a PhD student of the doctoral programme in «Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions» within Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) of the University of Padua in Italy. My PhD research project entitled «Transnational belongings and mobility paths: the migratory careers of Tunisian people in Italy», aims at understanding the factors influencing the establishment and maintenance of transnational relationships along the migratory pathways and the weight of identity issues in this complex. In this light I have conducted multi-sited research in Northern and Southern Italy, delving into the contextual-driven differences influencing transnationality.

Ilenia Maria Calafiore is geopolitical analyst, specialized in Climate Change related Migration. She is researcher affiliated to Instituto Seneca, Centro Internacional de Posgrado, where she is enrolled in Master in Migraciòn y Atenciòn al Refugiado. She already holds a bachelor in International Studies.

Raluca Calin est sociologue, spécialiste de l'identité et la citoyenneté européennes. A ce titre, ses recherches portent sur les questions identitaires en Europe, la migration intra-européenne et les problématiques d'installation et d'assimilation de ces derniers.