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Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin is a senior analyst at l'Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and associate professor (docent) at Uppsala University, Sweden. She investigates social inequality in transnational contexts such as migration, internationalisation, and globalisation. She holds a PhD in sociology and a Masters in social sciences from the EHESS in Paris. She is the author of a book in French, Le privilège d’une éducation transnationale: sociologie historique du baccalauréat international (2022) and four other articles available in English language journals: International Studies in Sociology of Education (2021), Journal of Curriculum Studies (2018), UNESCO’s Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education (2015), and Paedagogica Historica (2014).

Associate Professor in the TOBB-ETU University in Ankara. He completed his dissertation at the EHESS in Paris, published in Turkish (Modern Turkey’s Cipher: The Ethnic Engineering of the CUP, iletisim, 2008). He conducted his academic activities in more than ten universities and centers (France, the USA, Germany and Turkey). He mainly focuses on the relationship between population-identity-politics in the Ottoman Empire, Modern Turkey and Iraq. Some of his works : Türkiye Nüfus Sayımlarında Azınlıklar (Doz, 2000), İttihat ve Terakki’nin Müslümanları Iskan Politikası 1913-1918 (Iletisim, 2001), Kahir Ekseriyet: Ermeni Nüfus Meselesi 1878-1923 (Tarih Vakfı, 2013), StatisQuo: British Use of Statistics in the Iraqi Kurdish Question 1919-1932 (Brandeis Crown Papers, 2012), Measuring Assimilation (BJMES, 2014), Empire of Taxonomy (MES, 2015), Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanli Göç Politikasi 1856-1908 (İletişim, 2022).

Atakan DURMAZ is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finances at Samsun University in Turkey. He holds a PhD from the Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Economics, has conducted research at Duisburg-Essen University’s Stiftung Zentrum Für Türkeistudien Und Integrationsforschung. His main academic interests include; Turkish diaspora, migration economics, low-skilled and high-skilled Migrant labours, return migration.

Durodola, Tosin Samuel is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, and a recipient of the prestigious Graduate School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Scholarship. Tosin holds M.A in African Studies (Diaspora and Transnational Studies) with the highest Distinction from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His Master’s dissertation emerged as one of the two winners of the global Border Criminologies Thesis Prize, organised by Routledge and University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology. Tosin has done extensive collection, analysis, and dissemination of qualitative data on forced migration, diaspora, and refugee camps. He is a Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Nigeria and a Research Associate at the Reformers' Initiative for Development in Africa. He is a member of the Border Criminologies Network based at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. He is contributing a chapter to a forthcoming edited volume: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change - Major Reference Work (2023).

Mimoza Dushi serves as a Professor specializing in Demography and Migration courses at the University of Prishtina in Pristina, Kosovo. Her research is centered on migration, encompassing aspects such as the labor market, the integration of migrants into host societies, and the formation of identity.

The University of Warsaw. Research areas: migration, integration policy, social policy and European integration. 2008-2011 – Member of the Board of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Poland; 2014-2016 Member and between October 2015 and March 2016 President of Scientific Policy Committee (Ministry of Science and Higher Education); 2014-2015 - Visiting Professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

My research explores how cultural producers collaborate with Indigenous, migrant, and multi-ethnic communities to produce transmedia and transcultural counter-narratives of belonging and identity. I recently collaborated on the production of Youth in the City, a digital storytelling experience that displays how migrant youths live, interact and move across the Italian city of Prato. My first monograph Legacies of Indigenous Resistance was published by Peter Lang Oxford in 2019 as part of the ‘Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ series.