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I am a Sociologist researching on migration. Presently, I am moderating a webinar series on covid and mobility called Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future (https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/webinare/2020-corona-conversa…) hosted by the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne and supported by the DAAD.
My current interest is in future of migration from the perspective of transnational practices of Indian women migrants in Germany especially those migrating under EU Blue Card scheme and for higher education. Significant rise in their arrival is changing the social-cultural landscape in Germany as these young women are visible in German public spaces, white-collar employees, often bring their male dependent partners and effectively combine 'home-here' practices to invent homeland in Germany.

I am also interested in migration-covid interface from the perspective of how does post-covid truth shape the future of migration.

Amrita Datta is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen. Her project focuses on the transnational practices, motivations of immigration, and trends and prospects of the Indian immigrants in Germany including the latest entrants - Blue Card holders and Indian students in German universities. With the Covid-19 as the special lens, the project proposes to argue that the fast expanding Indian diaspora in Germany impacts the German social life at large and vice versa. Earlier, she moderated a ten-session web talk series on covid-mobility interface titled "Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future" hosted by the GSSC, Uni Cologne and supported by the DAAD.

Communication science studies at the University Duisburg-Essen and economic studies at the Distant University in Hagen. Since 2006 researcher at the Institute for Work and Technology, Westphalian University and part of the research department ‘Innovation, Space & Culture’. Here, she leads the thematic priotity 'Migration & Innovation'. Above all, she considers how immigrants contribute to regional innovation systems, but also how migration as an phenomenon shapes innovative actions within countries, regions and institutions. Her special focus lies at concepts of empowerment of immigrants as employees as well as regional potentials of immigrant entrepreneurs. She was lead partner and partner of several national and EU projects on migration related issues and was giving her expertise to several German ministries and the Integration Commisioner of the German Federal Goverment on Immigrant Entrepreneurship. In addition, she is involved in topics of distrimination and migrations narratives within Europe.

She wrote her doctoral thesis at the University of Twente (Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability) in Enschede (NL) titled: „Human Capital and the Role of Networks – Migration, Inclusion and New Qualification for a Sustainable Regional Economy” and worked two years as a consultant in Bern, Switzerland.

Dr. Julio Davies is an anthropologist focused on migration and diaspora studies, processes of nation-formation, racialisation and post-colonial legacies. Julio holds a BA in Social Sciences awarded by Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), and was awarded a MSc by King’s College London in Sociology in 2015, discussing dynamics of Brazilian migration to the UK. Currently finishing his PhD thesis in Anthropology at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), Julio was granted in 2021 a scholarship to undertake ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, Canada, investigating formations of local Lebanese diasporas and the creation of institutional spaces with a Lebanese profile.

Chiara Davino graduated in Architecture from the University Iuav of Venice (2019), where she was subsequently research fellow in Architectural Representation (2020). She is currently a PhD candidate in Social Research at Sociology and Business Law Department at University of Bologna and a member of the research group in Horizon2020 European project Welcoming Spaces. Her research currently investigates how the revitalisation of Italian shrinking areas can be linked to the reception of migrants and asylum seekers while offering spaces for interaction. Additionally, she is co-founder of Assembramenti (2020), a digital platform aimed to critically interpret space as a cultural process in the era of overlapping crises, and co-founder of Reimagining Mobilities (2022), a research group at Sociology and Business Law Department (University of Bologna).

Senior Director Alankrita Dayal is the North America Focal Point Lead for Experience Design at the United Nations, Migration Division.

She manages all digital initiatives spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Contact her at alankrita.dayal@unmgcy.org

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As a life-long immigrant, the experience of migration has become a structuring element of my social reality. Born in Brazil, I travelled on the behest of my mother, to the United Kingdom, at the age of four where I spent a consecutive 6 years. From there, I followed my mother to Geneva, Switzerland - not before spending a brief year in Paris, France – where I spent my teenage years and left, at the age of 17, to study Sociology in the United States. Studying Sociology in San Francisco at the turn of the century provided an ideal scenario to engage with how social contexts, styles, ontologies, and Selves interact in a diverse and dynamic space.

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Throughout my undergraduate years, my interest veered towards ethnic interplay and interaction, identity, and migration of the “dispossessed”. My undergraduate thesis discussed the usage of graffiti as identity markers and resources and proved to be my first ethnographic experience engaging with on the ground qualitative methodologies as I interviewed and engaged in participant observation of graffiti artists, in their contexts and situations, focusing on Mexican immigrants in the San Francisco metropolitan area. After graduating in sociology in 2004, I moved back to my hometown of Brasília, Brazil to face the distressing notion of not belonging “neither here nor there”. My family jokingly called me “tourist” or “gringo” and my year-long engagement with the University of Brasilia demonstrated how far detached I had become of cultural “Brazilian” markers. For this reason, I did not seem to find common ground with my fellow students in the department of Social Sciences at the University of Brasília, while finding common ground in the other-ness presented and experienced by exchange students and foreigners attending the University. This embodied and situational development of my “condition” of being an “immigrant” -a privileged one, of course – drew me closer to the field of inquiry of the condition of human migration and how the experience of migration shapes underlying notions of Selves and placement as well as world-views.

After entering the Master’s in Social Science program at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Mexico City, I sought to engage with how second generation Mexican Americans interact and present their “Mexican-ness” on social media platforms such as Facebook. Articulating the Chicago School cannon with new considerations of social configuration of ICT social space engagement and formation, I sought to discuss the implications of self-presentation on social media platforms and the means and modes of articulating ethnic self-conceptualization of Self utilized by (some) Mexican-American Facebook users. This research also stemmed heavily from ethnographic work applied to the digital sphere. It is then, not surprisingly, that my research interest at the Doctoral level follows a similar line to this line of inquiry, now veered toward the border, the physical and symbolic barriers that face deportees. Specifically, I am interested in understanding and analyzing how Mexican deported men negotiate, situate and interact with the experiences of migration in the context of living in borderlands such as Tijuana, Mexico, whilst also housed in temporary male-exclusive shelters. Thinking of performed masculinity in the ideation of Self and Place in this liminal state of Nation-state is fundamental and seeks to address (and redress) the role of the experience of migration -notably, here, deportation- as structural ontological conditioning that has important considerations of migration research analysis. Understanding migrancy is also a means to approximate my experience within a comprehensible format and continue to engage with how the migrant experience shapes the forms and ways of “being” in the world.

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Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico City, where I am analyzing the phenomenology of migration experience through the life stories and perceptions of Mexican deported men currently housed in temporary male-exclusive migrant shelters in Tijuana. Through a transdisciplinary approach, I engage with the gendered constitution of migration phenomena and its role in masculine perspective and positions with a vibrant discussion from feminist epistemes and methodologies, especially feminist phenomenology. By engaging with the intersectional make-up of Being, I address the dominated aspect of the deported migrant in a borderscape such as Tijuana, highlighting the affective conditioning of being "torn" from a life and placed on the steps of an "Empire".

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​My interest in migration analysis is on reflexivity, positionality, feminist methodologies and epistemologies, the affective turn in migration analysis, migration theory, the role of emotions and the place, space and locality as part of borderscape and border studies.

I received my Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from San Francisco State University (SFSU) and a Master in Social Sciences from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) -Mexico. I am a Specialist in International Migration from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte and current PhD candidate in Social and Political Sciences from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) with expected graduation date in 2023