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Lior Yohanani is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. He holds an MA in Sociology from Tel Aviv University and from Rutgers. His work focuses on questions of migration, nationalism, identity, and collective action. In his dissertation project, Lior focuses on diaspora soldiers in the Israeli military. He examines what makes those soldiers come to Israel and join the military, the service period's impact on their views and migration intentions, and the role of state initiatives and diaspora organizations in advancing recruitment. Lior’s work has been published in Nations and Nationalism and in Sociological Forum.

Zeynep Yokmaç is a Researcher in the International Research Training Group: “Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Trier. Her research projects include migration and urban studies, uncertain mobilities, and urban transformation. She did her MA in Transcultural Studies at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, and her BA in Sociology and double major in History at Boğaziçi University.

Yinghua is at her final stage of candidature. Her research focused on the lived experiences of new Chinese professional women through an interdisciplinary approach in bringing in Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and capital, inequality regimes and migration studies, with a particular interest in exploring women’s experiences in their career planning, accounts of everyday experiences at work and their choices between family and life. She is currently involved with research projects investigating consumer culture and practices among the lower sociocultural communities in the Global South and civic engagement, community building and engagement through the virtual space of WeChat amidst COVID-19. Yinghua has been the Postgraduate Representative of TASA’S MEM group since 2018 and has contributed broadly to various events planning and organisation in the past few years. Her research interests include migration, ethnicity and gender studies, workplace culture, career, motherhood, digital media, and work-family relationships.

Recent publication: Yu, Y (2021), The Careers of New Chinese Professional Women: Planning, Pathways and WeChat, Culture Unbound, Volume 13, issue 2, pp. 178-198. Published by Linköping University Electronic Press: https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/3301

Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM). Previously, she was the Director of the Department of Social Sciences at her university from 2019-21. Her areas of interest are gender, immigration, citizenship, specifically issues of Muslim women in Western Europe. Her research has been funded by national and international grants, including the Social Science Research Council Canada, German Center for Migration Research (DeZIM) and GIF (German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research). She was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University in 2019, where she was affiliated with the Comparative Inequalities and Inclusion Research Cluster. She wrote and edited five books, most recently, The Headscarf Debates: Conflict of National Belonging (2014, Stanford University Press, with Anna Korteweg), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Yurdakul and Korteweg started a new book-length project on how the politics of non-belonging are produced in the European media and political debate. Yurdakul is an associate editor for the leading feminist journal, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.

Ildikó Zakariás is a research fellow at the Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest. Her main research areas are civil society and humanitarianism, migration, ethnicity and nationalism, and a related focus on affective governance. Her dissertation has been published as a monograph (in Hungarian) titled Philanthropic Nation – Solidarity and Power in support of Ethnic Hungarian Minorities (Budapest, Kalligram, 2018). Her recently published articles appeared in the journals Sociology, International Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations and Intersections – East European Journal of Society and Politics. Her ongoing research focuses on refugee and migrant services in Vienna, and on the position and perspectives of migrant workers in these organisations.

Carmen Zamorano Llena, PhD, is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is also the Literary Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Irish Studies, and Series Co-editor of Peter Lang’s Cultural Identity Studies series. She has published widely on contemporary Irish and British fiction and poetry. Her most recent publication is Fictions of Migration in Britain and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and she is also co-editor of several collections of essays, including Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland (Peter Lang, 2011), and Transculturality and Literature: Redefinitions of Identity in Contemporary Literature (Rodopi, 2013). In 2010 she was awarded a three-year research grant (2011-2013) by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to develop her research project entitled “Globalisation, Migration and Communal Narratives of Belonging: Changing National Narratives in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction.” Over the last decade her research has mainly focused on literature and globalization and literatures of migration in Britain and Ireland, and she has published extensively in these fields of specialization in peer-reviewed publications. She is a participant researcher in the funded NOS-HS workshop series “Temporalities and Subjectivities of Crossing: Contemporary Public Migration Narratives in Europe” (2019-2020). She is also the leader of a research group on literatures of migration in Europe at Dalarna University, whose most recent focus is on media and literary constructs of Muslim identity in Europe, past and present.