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Victoria is a research and policy-oriented professional who holds a PhD from the University of Geneva in Social Sciences. Her main research areas are migrant organizations, migration and development, integration, rights of migrants, labour migration and gender and migration. She has over ten years experience on migration, gender and child protection with international development, humanitarian and non-governmental organizations.

Colombian lawyer with a PhD in law from the University Paris 2, Panthéon Assas. Expert in migrations and human rights with more than 10 years experience working as professor researcher. My researches focus on the governance of migrations in the global south, the administration of migrations in Latin America, Venezuelan recent migratory flows and migrant's human rights.

Giovanni Cavaggion is a Research Fellow of Public Law at the Department of International, Legal, Historical and Political Studies of the University of Milan (Italy), where he teaches Constitutional Law, Public Law and Multilevel Constitutionalism. He is the author of the books Diritti culturali e modello costituzionale di integrazione (Turin, 2018) and La formazione del Governo. Aspetti e problemi tra quadro costituzionale e nuove prassi (Turin, 2020), and of over 20 articles on national and international journals. His research interests include multiculturalism, the multilevel protection of fundamental rights, cultural rights, freedom of religion, constitutional revisions, conflicts between constitutional powers, the European integration process.

I am Associate Professor in Demography in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan. My work has involved a range of themes situated within population studies with a focus on migration and ageing. My main research interests are in the fields of migration from the perspective of both sending and receiving countries, ageing and active ageing, health, wellbeing, life course analysis, family studies.

Dr. Toni Cela is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include: migration and education; anthropology of disaster and recovery; disaster health; Haitian youth identity formation; anthropology of education; and diaspora and development. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, is a former Fulbright Scholar and Spencer Foundation fellow.

Jocelyn O. Celero is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Japan Studies Program at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. She teaches courses on Japanese society, culture, politics and economy. She obtained her PhD in International Studies at Waseda University, Japan in 2016. She has published on migration and transnationality of Filipino migrants and Japanese-Filipinos. Since 2019, she has served as Research Fellow/Focal Person for UP-CIFAL Philippines.

Francesco is currently an FWO senior fellow at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), KU Leuven, Belgium, with a project on the role of mixed couples’ associations in the public sphere (in Italy, France and Belgium).
He is a cultural sociologist with a specific interest in the intersection of family, migration and religion. His research is characterized by the use of qualitative methods, in particular of ‘life stories’ and ethnographic observation. His focus on mixed families and, in particular, on Christian-Muslim families, represents a key to examining the wider social changes related to family, Muslim migration and religious pluralism in Europe. In Italy he was also involved in research on second-generations of immigrants and the role of schools in the debate on citizenship.
Previously, from February 2018 until February 2020, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ku Leuven. With the project entitled “ReMix - Christian-Muslim families dealing with religious pluralism in everyday family life: Religious reconstruction in religiously mixed marriages”, he investigated the daily life of Christian-Muslim couples in Belgium and France.
Francesco has a PhD in Social Sciences (2013) and Bachelor’s (2005) and Master’s (2008) degrees in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights from the University of Padua. In Padua, at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), he worked as a researcher and taught a course on "The Imaginary of alterity" and “Diversity, Minorities and Cultural conflicts” from 2016 until 2018.
His publications includes a monograph in Italian (Guida Ed. 2016) and several articles in English published in Social Compass, Identities, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Cotemporary Religion, Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.