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Tiziana Caponio, PhD in Political Science at the University Cesare Alfieri of Florence, is currently Marie Curie Research Fellow at MPC with the project ‘Migration Policy in Multilevel Political Settings. City Networks in Europe and North America (MInMUS)’. Her research focus on migration policy and policymaking, with a specific attention to the local dimension and multilevel governance dynamics. Since 2015 she is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society (CPS) of the University of Turin, where she teaches ‘Dynamics and policies of migration’. She is also Research Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto and at the Fourm of International and European Research on Immigration (FIERI). She is co-chair of the Standing Committee ‘Migration Politics and Governance' of the IMISCOE Research Network and has been involved in many international collaborative projects on migration and immigrant integration policies in Europe and beyond. In April-June 2017 she was Luigi Einaudi Chair at the Cornell Institute for European Studies (Cornell University). She has edited together with Peter Scholten and Ricard Zapata The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities. Among recent publications on this topic: (with Teresa Cappiali), Italian Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: The Policy Gap Reconsidered, South European Politics and Society, 23(1), pp. 115-132 .

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in material culture, transnationalism, kinship and migrant infrastructure. I gained my PhD in Anthropology at UCL and my thesis looked at parcel-sending in Moldovan transnational families as a shared practice of staying connected across borders. My current project explores transnational parcel-sending practices as a form of solidarity with Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.

Andrea Carlà (PhD in Politics, New School for Social Research, New York - Postgraduate studies in Diplomacy and International Relations, University of Bologna) is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights at EURAC Research (Bolzano, Italy). His research focuses on the interplay among minority protection, migration and security issues. He is the co-editor of “Migration in Autonomous Territories. The Case of South Tyrol and Catalonia” (2015) and authors of articles in academic publications such as Ethnopolitics and EYMI, as well as a frequent contributor to a local newspaper.

John Carlaw is a Senior Research Associate under the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada where he co-leads CERC’s Politics and Narratives of Migration Research Theme. His current projects include CONTESTATIONS of Migration and Belonging in Canada amidst COVID-19 and a book manuscript, Neoconservative Multiculturalism: The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Migration and Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial Canada. John has previously led CERC Migration’s graduate student mentorship program and annual research symposia (2020-2023) and taught at Trent and York Universities. From 2015 to 2019, John served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, where he also completed his doctorate. He has recieved funding for his research both during and since his doctoral studies from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Research focus/fields of interest include: immigration policy, citizenship, political parties, populism.

I do research on global migration, immobility and transnationalism. My work seeks to explain how migration arises, and how it affects societies, families and individuals. These broad questions have led to research on a range of specialized topics, including migrant smuggling, and remittance transactions, and migration aspirations. My theoretical contributions to migration studies include the aspiration/ability model (2002), the concept of involuntary immobility (2002), the asymmetries of migrant transnationalism (2008), the integration-transnationalism matrix (2014) and the scripting of remittances (2014). I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, l have a strong interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication.

Ignacio is a PhD candidate at UPF and part of DemoSoc research group. He is working on immigrants’ labour market integration and determinants of migration in Latin American countries, with Professor Pau Baizán as his supervisor. Ignacio’s first paper analyzes the assimilation model by comparing social stratification of immigrants versus natives in the Chilean context, using household survey data from years 2013 to 2017. His second and third papers deal with determinants of Colombian intraregional and extraregional migration, using event history analysis and agent based models.
Before joining the PhD program, Ignacio worked at UN-ECLAC in different issues related to social development. His research interests are social development and protection, migration, and quantitative methods. Ignacio holds a Master in Demography from Stockholm University, a Master in Migration Studies from UPF, and a degree in Sociology from University of Chile