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PhD. Social Anthropology (Universidad de Barcelona, BCN, Spain), Master degree in Anthropology and development (Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile), social work (Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile). Currently a teacher and researcher at the UA

Currently a teacher and researcher at the UA in qualitative research method (TSF, Ethnography, content analysis), research related with reproductive heatlh and migration, neglected diseases: Chagas disease in LA, Chile, BCN.
Specialist in training of health teams, in areas of interculturality, racism, health care with cultural relevance.
I have developed online training courses for health teams, in areas of health care for Haitian migrants, migrants and training in qualitative research methodology and specialty in Chagas.

I have led research teams, national and international research funds.
I have developed IEC material aimed at the population in general and the migrant population in particular, health teams in relation to Chagas. More info: www.chaochagaschile.cl

My PhD research focuses on how refugee-background children in the UK experience language education in schools. This necessarily draws on their geographic and social trajectories, their experiences of integration into schools, classrooms, and local communities, and the state of English as an Additional Language programmes and policies at both the school and local government levels.

This reflects my wider interest in migration, language and linguistics, and the sociology of education. More specifically, my work draws on Critical Race Theory, Language Policy Planning and Engagement, and decolonial methodologies. As I work with refugees, it's important to examine their place in the English education system and their experience of power(lessness) as an already vulnerable group who also have to negotiate a systematically racist social system and increasingly anti-immigration sociopolitical sentiment (see Brexit).

I am Emmanuel Aweda, a PhD research candidate working on evaluation of climate change-induced migration along the Savanna and coastal regions of Nigeria with a view to modelling and projecting these migration drivers based on climate change scenarios. I am open to meetings, discussions, interdisciplinary collaborations and volunteer opportunities.

Bilgin Ayata is University Professor for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. She is director of the NOMIS Research Project "Elastic Borders: Rethinking the Borders of the 21st Century" and co-speaker of the Cluster "Migration, Mobility and Borders" at the University of Graz. Further third party research projects include "Affective Citizenship: Religion, Migration and Belonging" (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2018-2021) and "Infrastructure Space and the Future of Migration Management" (funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies, 2018-2021). Her research centres on socio-political transformations with a focus on migration, borders, citizenship, affect and emotions and postcolonial studies. Ayata was the DFG Mercator Fellow at the SFB Affective Societies from 2019-2023 and is Co-President of the Swiss-Turkey Research Association.