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Dr Ceyda Durmus received her doctorate in Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Educational Research on the PhD Programme at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Since 2020, she has been working at the MoNE in Türkiye as an education specialist and, while working at the Ministry, she has taught several undergraduate-level courses at TED University and the Middle East Technical University as an adjunct professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education. Her main research interests concern educational inequalities and the education–migration nexus, especially analysed through qualitative research.

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.

Kate is a migration, gender, and security expert who balances life as an academic-practitioner. Kate’s specializes in migration to Eastern Europe, and currently lives in Romania for her research on Third Country National integration. Her lifelong advocacy has been sexual and reproductive health and rights, and she has worked in particular with women and migrants in Manila, Canberra, Rome, Brussels, Paris, Lyon, and Cluj-Napoca. Kate holds a Ph.D. in political theory from the Luiss Guido Carli and a Ph.D. in political and social sciences from the ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles.

PhD Candidate at the CEU Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (Public Policy Track). Her research focuses on migrants’ political activism, critical migration governance, and contentious politics. She is currently a chair of the CEU Migration Research Group. Before her PhD studies, she worked as a consultant at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and for the SIRIUS project (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) at Charles University in Prague.

Martha Ecker is currently working on her PhD thesis with the title "inclusion of refugees - opportunities and barriers for resilient development in Austrian regions" at the Centre for Regional Science, Department for Spatial Planning, TU Vienna University, where she also works as a university assistant. In addition to this she is involved in research and teaching on the topics of sustainable urban development, regional development and integration, and research methods.
Before that she completed her Master's in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy at the Vienna University of Economics, writing her thesis with Dr. Wolfgang Lutz on micro-data based education-specific population prejections for the country of Tanzania.
She has also studied Economics and Internation Development Studies, and has a deep interest in issues that demand interdisciplinary approaches.