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Ikenna Ejiba is an avid researcher with interest on migration, translocality, climate change, and food security. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Migration and Translocality in West Africa (MiTra/WA) project in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research examines the influence of migration and translocal networks on agricultural sustainability of rural farming households influenced by climate change. Ikenna has also presented research papers in international conferences including the First "Feed the Future" Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project organized by USAID and IFPRI; and also the African Heritage Institute's Annual Governance Conference on the Political Economy of Migration in Africa. His works has been published in journal articles.

Anoji Ekanayake is a PhD candidate at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with extensive experience in research on migrant workers in the Gulf region. Her work has appeared in international journals such as Migration and Development (Routledge) and Comparative Migration Studies (Springer). She is currently working as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Migration Research and Development (CMRD), Sri Lanka, on a project on bilateral labour agreements. Prior to that, she was attached to the Migration and Displacement Stream of the Gender, Justice and Security Hub of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she worked with a team of researchers on forced displacement in Sri Lanka, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraqi Kurdistan.

I am a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Koç University. I received my M.A. in Sociology from Marmara University in 2020 and my B.A. in Clinical Psychology from University of Tabriz in 2014. My primary research interests lie in the area of forced migration, social integration of immigrants, informal labor migration, and transit migration with a particular focus on irregular transit migration of Afghan refugees from Iran to Turkey. Beside my ongoing studies, I also worked as a research assistant in several research projects including migration-development nexus (MIGNEX), advancing alternative migration governance (ADMIGOV), and DEFining and Implementing Novel Evidence-based psychosocial interventions (RE-DEFINE).

Cansu Ekmekcioglu is a doctoral candidate at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS). Research interests include asylum seekers in Europe, norms and values within international migration, frontline-bureaucrats, international migration management organisations and return migration.

Zouhair El-Hairan attained a Bachelor's Degree in Media and Communication from Pompeu Fabra University. He also obtained a Master's Degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Barcelona and a Master's Degree in 'Politics/Current Democracies: Nationalism & Multiculturalism' at Pompeu Fabra University.
He is a PhD Candidate of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University, and a Diaspora Facilitator/Technical Assistant at the Catalan Fund for Development Cooperation.