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I am a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and a migration analyst of the People in Need NGO. I hold a PhD in social geography and regional development from Charles University. In my current research, I focus on Vietnamese Diaspora in Czechia, particularly on Vietnamese settlement in rural settings and their translocal and transnational practices and networks in the context of the CEE region.

• Réka Friedery is a research fellow at the Department of European Union Law and International Law at the Centre for Social Sciences., Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Excellence. She gained experience in studying the governance, processes and consequences of mobility (free movement, migration), accountability, citizens’ participation in the EU. Friedery’s recent researches focus on aspects of migration and populism; AI in migration policies and free movement in crises, accountability and corruption in the EU. She is an editor of Quarterly on Refugee Problems-AWR Bulletin. She participated in several national and international pojects, among others in EU' Horizon 2020 Demos project and in Visegrad Fund project.

She is Associate Professor in Sociology at Fisppa, University of Padua. Extensive research experiences in ethnic and migration studies, religious studies and youth studies, with a special expertise on qualitative, visual and participatory research methods. She is committed to researching/contrasting different forms of racisms through cultural work with young people. She is a member of the DIVCULT group of IMISCOE. Her recent work: "Decolonising the city. Visual Dialogues in Padova" , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CtMsORajE

Christiane Fröhlich researches human mobility within and from the Global South at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Her regional focus is mainly on the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Turkey), where she has conducted extensive field research, but she is also engaged in cross-regional comparative projects, including the EU-funded consortium "Migration Governance and Asylum Crises", in which she leads a work package on „Comparing Crises. Lessons from «migration crises» in North Africa, the Middle East and the Greater Horn of Africa.“

Jorge Frozzini is Professor in Communication Studies at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) and holds the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Communication and Management Technologies in a Pluralistic Environment. His research focuses on migration, intercultural cities, intercultural relations and diversity, on both policy and intercultural dynamics issues with a strong interest in communication, systemics approaches and qualitative methods.

Dr Shilan Fuad Hussain is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow expert in Cultural Analysis and Gender Studies. She is an interdisciplinary academic and works on a variety of topics such as Gender, Culture, and Diaspora. Her current work sits at the intersection of sociology and cultural analysis, and its symbiotic relevance to modern society.
https://www.shilanfuadhussain.com/

(Middle-Eastern Studies - Kurdish/Jewish Diaspora)

Lukas M. Fuchs is an interdisciplinary skilled migration and refugee researcher with international work experience at the intersection of international relations between states and transnational actors and the social integration of migrants. In addition to Germany, his methodologically diverse research work has taken him to Uganda, Kenya and Israel, where he has worked for NGOs and the IOM, among others. In his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin, he is addressing questions relating to values, belonging ​​and cultural diversification as a result of refugee migration. At DeZIM Institute, he currently works on return efforts and citizenship of refugees. He is also a member of the Global Mental Health research group at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Javier is a gender, migration and mental health consultant. They are the social worker and clinical coordination of la Clinique Mauve, a specialized clinic in healthcare and mental health for Trans and migrant people. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in social work, their experiences include community research, clinical practice with migrant LGBTQI+ people and research creation. They are also involved in the development of socially engaged art exhibitions within queer communities in Montreal and Colombia. Javier currently sits on the board of directors of AGIR (LGBTQI+ action with immigrants and refugees).