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Dr. Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban, is a Senior Assistant Professor, in the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India and he was a visiting research Fellow (June 2022) at the Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, and the Summer Institute fellow (June- July 2022) at Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute fellowship for Israel Studies at Brandeis University USA. His area of interest includes International Migration, Diaspora, Refugee, South Asia, South Asian Diaspora, Citizenship, Nation, Nationalism, and Transnationalism, Indian and Chinese Diaspora, Jewish Diaspora, Muslim Diaspora, Comparative Diaspora Studies, Contemporary English Literature/s, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, Interdisciplinary studies and Research Methodology. He has presented his research papers at various national and international conferences, attended summer schools, participated in workshops/training programs, and delivered lectures in different capacities in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, Croatia, Iraq, the USA, Uzbekistan, the U.K, Israel, Palestine, Azerbaijan, etc. There are three books, two special edited volumes of journals, and around twenty research articles to his credit. He has received various fellowships and awards including the Prof. B. M. Khedkar Award (2009), AP Urdu Academy Fellowship (2010-11), The Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF-JRF & SRF 2011-2016), The Wenner-Gren Foundation and EASA fellowship (2018), Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute fellowship for Israel Studies (2022) and The University of Illinois Library Research Award 2022 from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. He was recently awarded with the Young Alumnus of Honour – 2023 from the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, A Central University, Hyderabad, India.

He can be reached at shujaudeen09@gmail.com

Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro is a French-Argentinian PhD candidate at Sciences Po Law School, a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, and a Fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migrations (ICM).

His research articulates an interdisciplinary analysis (legal ethnography, doctrinal analysis and legal theory) of the legal processes of marginalization of migrants at the border. He works in particular on the case of the French-Italian border where he does his fieldwork. He seeks to unveil the legal operations that determine the status of migrants at the border. He examines more specifically how the dynamics of the socio-legal controversy around the border affect the interpretation and the elaboration of migration law, in particular migrants’ legal standing and citizens’ right to provide assistance to foreigners.

Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro is a graduate in Political Philosophy, Law and Migration Studies. He holds a B.A. in Humanities and Social Sciences (Sciences Po, 2013), an M.A. in Political and Legal Philosophy (Sorbonne University, 2015), an M.A. in Economic Law - Global Governance Studies (Sciences Po Law School, 2016) and an advanced M.A. in Interdisciplinary Analysis of the European Integration – Europe and Migrations (Institute for European Studies - University libre de Bruxelles, 2017).

In 2018-2019, Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro was a visiting research scholar at Northeastern University School of Law (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.). There, he pursued his research in close contact with the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He is also part of the Law School’s Migration Clinic since 2019, where he initiated in 2019-2020 a clinical project that aimed to examine the controversial legal basis of migrant detention at the French Italian-Border. He is now a member of the Scientific Council and coordinates the Clinic’s program on Migrations.

Chantanee Charoensri is a sociologist of migration. She is currently the dean of the faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research includes: Thai Daughters, English Wives: A Critical Ethnography of Transnational Lives; Virtual Mobility among Highly Skilled Migrants in Thailand: Mobility movement and virtual mobility; From Migration Studies to Mobility Paradigm: An Evaluation of Frameworks Suitable for a Study of Highly Skilled Migration. She is a project leader for Thai-Norwegian couples in Thailand. Impact of transnational welfare and migration policy on return migration, which is a part of ThaiMig Project funded by Vid Specialized University's excellence in research. She is also a member of a research group : Transnational Intimacy and Migration Process (find out about the cluster here: https://transnationalintim.wixsite.com/website-3/team). Previously, she was a co-researcher for the Thai Entrepreneurs in the UK (Newton Fund).

My scholarship interrogates the significance of social categories as they mediate myriad opportunities and constraints in the everyday lives of immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. I utilize diverse methodologies, data sources, and theoretical perspectives to investigate how ascriptive social categories (race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.) and their corresponding symbolic boundaries are activated, reinforced, and contested within organizations, politics, and popular culture, among others. My current research program consists of three streams: 1) immigrant organizations, 2) immigrant politics and civic participation, and 3) the sociology of music.

I am a doctoral researcher in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Broadly, I am interested in the politics of migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More specifically, I am interested in understanding how national governments across LAC manage different forms of migration (immigration, in-transit migration, forced migration, and return migration), what factors shape their management strategies, what explains variation across national governments in the region, and how such management strategies shape the lives of migrant communities. I address such questions by employing qualitative methods.

Ahlam Chemlali’s research examines the politics and practices of border violence and death as a key phenomenon in need of scrutiny in contemporary European migration politics. Chemlali explores how the externalization of European border control to North Africa produces the everyday violence of the border and how this shapes gendered experiences. Her research project offers a unique ethnographic perspective on how West African migrant women in transit navigate and negotiate the violent terrains that characterize the North African borderlands, with particular attention to Libya and Tunisia.

Ahlam has over 10 years of NGO experience and conducted over 70 field and fact-finding missions including designing and leading translational research studies with a special focus on human rights documentation, violence prevention, and development interventions in migrant and refugee populations across MENA-region and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Lin Chen is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Department of Political Science, at the research group of Leuven International and European Studies, and jointly in Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, at the research group of Interface Demography. She holds previous degrees as Master of Arts in Sociology at Columbia University, Masters of Arts in Economics in Boston University, and Master of Arts at Scoical Sciences in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Her doctoral research topic is research project focuses on the South-to-South student mobility from Africa to China, which aims to investigate “How Do Migration Networks Facilitate African Student Mobility and Integration In China? - A Social Network Perspective on South-to-South Migration”.