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I hold a PhD in Sociology from the Paris-Sorbonne University. My interest in expatriation stems from my experience as educator in France and abroad and inquiries among teachers from France in Casablanca (Morocco) and London (UK) by in ethnographic and qualitative methods. Author several articles and book chapters, I am an active member of international research networks in Sociology: “Comparative Sociology” and “Sociology of Migration” at the International Sociological Association at the conference at Tokyo (2014) and Toronto (2018), “Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology” and “Sociology of migration” at the European Sociological Association at the congress in Torino and Bilbao (2013), Praha (2015), Athens (2017), Helsinki (2018) and Manchester (2019). I also have participated to the IMISCOE conference in Malmö (2019) and I am a member of the Lifestyle Migration Hub.
I have led research with homeless people and the use of alcohol in Paris and guided social workers with students in training progress. I have taught Sociology of migrations at Sciences Po Paris and I am now Lecturer in Social Work at CEMEA-Aubervilliers and Paris-Nanterre University.

I am a doctoral researcher at University of Bonn working on: "pathways, mobilities and climate change: journeys of labour migrants from the Sunderbans Delta in India." I am particularly interested in ethnographic stories about climate migration; delving to research more on linkages between climate governance/policies in Global South and climate-induced migration. After studying political science in Calcutta, I completed my postgraduate studies in journalism in Chennai, India. As a correspondent and editor at the Time of India, I edited content, and managed media content and everyday news story packages. I simultaneously completed my Master's degree in International Relations. I then worked as a junior researcher in Bengaluru where I teamed on an ethnographic study on borderlands and marginalised communities in the Indo-China border. In addition, I also developed a keen interest in studying the sociological impacts of climate change while working on a project investigating the governance of water security in India. During this time, I have been a network builder for the International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI) supported by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-India office and remained an editor and writer for several in-house publications of the research institute.

I work as a senior researcher at the Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo Metropolitan University. I have a PhD in sociology from Queen's University, Belfast, UK. In the recent years, I have been involved in research examining migrant involvement in welfare services; I studied migrant mental health; I was involved in and researched migrant organizations; and I examined the refugee settlement strategies of the Norwegian municipalities. My research interests span migration; transnationalism; public health; studies in mental health and well-being; resilience; welfare services; family migration. Since 2019, I have been an assistant editor of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.

Francesco Bellinzis earned his PhD in sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and is currently affiliated with the UPC School in Spain. Previously, he was a member of Gedime (Immigration and Ethnic Minorities Study Group) at UAB and served as a visiting researcher at the University of Brighton. Additionally, he led research for 'La Langue des Oiseaux,' an Erasmus+ project by Linguapax International (UNESCO consultative status) addressing migrant and refugee engagement with the arts in European cities. His areas of interest predominantly lie in the sociology of art and migration studies. He has published various articles in these two areas with a specific emphasis on the relationship between art and migration.

I am a sociologist of migration with a particular expertise in ethnography, refugee studies and the Horn of Africa. Over the past 10 years, my primary concerns of investigation have been the drivers and the dynamics of forced and high risk-migrants; migrant smuggling; gender and migration; secondary movements of asylum seekers and refugees within Europe; Dublin Regulations and its implications; home and housing studies; transnational families. Most of my empirical work has been based on qualitative methods such as life-stories collection, qualitative interviews and, most notably, multi-sited ethnography. I have done fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands from 2012 onwards. My research settings included refugee camps, asylum centers, and urban diverse neighbourhoods.