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PhD in Social Sciences at Universidade Estadual de Campians (UNICAMP, Brazil). Researcher at PAGU Center for Gender Studies (UNICAMP).

A Social-economist and a development planning and migration expert with over 30 years of experience in practicing, teaching, researching and providing expert advice in the fields of socioeconomic and human development and migration and population mobility. Educated at the University of Khartoum in Sudan(B Sc.) and the University of Leeds, UK (MA & PhD).

Brenda Gambol is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Dallas. She received her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and her Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Full-time Researcher (tenured) at National Concil of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina.
Adjunt Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Humanities (University of Mar del Plata, Argentina).
Visiting Fellow at CHREN (Centre of Human Rights at FAU-Erlangen, Germany), 2023.

I work as a PhD student and University assistant at the University of Vienna in the Department of Geography and Regional Research since 2021. I hold a Master degree in Development Economics from Clermont Auvergne University, France. For my PhD research , I aim to assess the role of immobility for environmental and climate change adaptation as part of my doctoral thesis. My work uses mainly mixed methods research design to analyse long-term migration and (im)mobility outcomes in a case study in Eastern Ethiopia, with the analysis of long-term migration data from the HDSS demographic monitoring system and combined with qualitative field work in the area of study.

Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) at University of Rennes 2 (France)
Faculty of Sports Sciences

I hold a PhD in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen and am a qualified solicitor in Ecuador. My research bridges the fields of refugee studies, security studies and Latin American mobility. My work explores security approaches to refugee movements in South America with theoretical focus on (de)securitisation and (in)visibility. I am currently expanding my research agenda to the intersections between migrant integration and interculturalidad. My empirical area of expertise is South America, particularly Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. I am also interested in participatory methods and critical discourse analysis.

She is a PhD student in the "Gender, Risk, and Social Vulnerability" research group and in the University Institute of Studies on Migration, Universidad Pontificia Comillas. She is being involved in projects arround the impact of COVID on the health of people in situations of prostitution, migration and trafficking in Spain, Belgium, Italy and Portugal. Holder of a PhD fellowship (FPU) from the Spanish Ministry of Universities to teach and conduct the thesis research. She has been a Professor in training at the Department of Sociology and Social Work. Advisor and researcher in the subjects of transnational migration, gender issues, and human trafficking. She has published in journals such as the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health and is a reviewer in "Qualitative Health Research - SAGE". She has been an honorary research assistant at University College London, where she led research on the risks of trafficking and exploitation among Ukrainians seeking refuge in the UK. Currently, she is a professor in the Psychology degree program at Cardenal Cisneros University Center, University of Alcalá de Henares.