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Lin Chen is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Department of Political Science, at the research group of Leuven International and European Studies, and jointly in Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, at the research group of Interface Demography. She holds previous degrees as Master of Arts in Sociology at Columbia University, Masters of Arts in Economics in Boston University, and Master of Arts at Scoical Sciences in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Her doctoral research topic is research project focuses on the South-to-South student mobility from Africa to China, which aims to investigate “How Do Migration Networks Facilitate African Student Mobility and Integration In China? - A Social Network Perspective on South-to-South Migration”.

I am a sociologist and political scientist with the research interest in social and, speicfically, academic inequalities, European integration and emigration studies. In addition to my scientific work I am supporting Scholars at Risk at the Europa-University Flensburg and volunteer.

Dr Herbary Cheung (he/dia/เขา/佢) is a Lecturer in Gender Studies and Work Integrated Learning/Internship Coordinator at the Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS), Monash University. Trained as a feminist sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he believes “knowledge is co-produced in ethnographic research”. His research engages with gender and migration, family, marriage and health, intersectionality, and contextual mobility, focusing on Southeast Asia-Hong Kong connections.

Phd, she is a researcher on the issues of socio-educational inclusion processes of minorities from a gender perspective. She is currently a research fellow at the FORLILPSI Department of the University of Florence.

I am a sociologist and associate professor at Nord University, in Norway, with expertise in migrant residential segregation and labor market outcomes. My research focuses on the factors shaping residential mobility, access to housing, and employment of migrants in their host societies. I mostly apply quantitative research methods to register and census data in my research.

Ph.D Researcher in Sociology at Georg-August University of Gottingen (Germany) and at Leiden University's African Studies Centre (the Netherlands). Currently a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Insitute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Interests in transnational migration in South Africa, Pentecostal Christianity, African urbanism, social relations and encounters, ambivalence