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Alia Fakhry is a migration researcher with experience in migration policy in European, Middle Eastern and African contexts. She is currently working as Associate Researcher with the German Council on Foreign Relation (DGAP) where she coordinates a multi-author study on African migration policies and debates. Alia previously worked at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), UN-Habitat, UNICEF Senegal and for the Ifpo (CNRS) in Jordan and Lebanon.

A young professional in the space of migration and refugee rights in South Asia. Been working with UN & other NGOs for almost 4 years in the International Development sector in India as well as briefly at The Hague and Geneva. Currently based in Delhi working with a UK based INGO and running on a volunteer basis India operations of Peacebuilding Projects as well as representing South and Central Asia as as regional focal point for UNMGCY Humanitarian Affairs working group. IHEID Geneva alumni of Masters in International Affairs. Areas of expertise Management, Qualitative Research ,Communciations & Writing,Program design and Advocacy

Doctorant sur "les logiques de la gouvernance migratoire au Sénégal "dans le cadre d'une cotutelle entre l'Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar(Sénégal) et l'Université Internationale de Rabat (Maroc),
Sous la codirection du Pr Ismaïla Madior FALL, Professeur titulaire des facultés de droit et de Science politique et du Pr Jean Noël FERRIE , Doyen de Sciences-Pô Rabat;
Tuteur au Pole SEJA, Spécialité Science politique de l'Université Virtuelle du Sénégal (2019-2020);
Membre du comité de chercheurs de l'OMIRAS (Observatoire sur les Migrations, l'Asile et l'Apatridie);
Évaluateur Émergent de l'Association Sénégalaise d’Évaluation (SenEval).

PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California. His lines of research are youth, public space, digital cultures, and citizenship.

Belén Fernández Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of A Coruña, Spain. She is member of the Research Team in Sociology of International Migrations (ESOMI). Her main lines of research are migration policies, local integration policies, and comparative policies of immigration. She did research stays at the University of California-San Diego, University of Lisbon, University of Sheffield (UK), University of Poitiers (France) and University of California-Berkeley.

Focus in my research on the transnational role of the diaspora for the development of small towns in Kyrgyzstan. Political participation of diaspora. I use visual language to indicate the common language of groups, group culture in social movements. Visual art for understanding social processes and decolonization of discourse.
I also have extensive experience outside academia, having worked on various consulting and research projects in the field of development, art and culture, policy development and implementation.
I use comparative methods (QCA) and want to do something with diaspora and memory about the civil war in Lebanon, compare Kyrgyz and Lebanese diaspora and its impact on home countries.

Professor at FLACSO-Argentina and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (IICSAL-FLACSO/CONICET). He is the director of the Diploma Superior en Migraciones, Movilidades e Interculturalidad en América Latina (Higher Diploma on Migrations, Mobilities and Interculturality in Latin America). His research interests are Intercultural relations, Jewish diaspora, Jewish-Korean Argentine relationship and academic mobilities in the context of the internationalization of higher education.

David Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego. His research analyzes policies regulating migration and asylum in countries of origin, transit, and destination. FitzGerald’s books include Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers (Oxford University Press 2019), winner of the American Sociological Association International Migration Section Best Book Award; Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press 2014), whose several awards include the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award; A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration (University of California Press 2009), Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy (Stanford University Press 2021), and six edited volumes on Mexico-U.S. migration. His more than 30 articles and book chapters have been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Law and Society Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, and New York University Law Review. He is currently co-authoring a book titled Refugees: A Sociological Systems Approach. FitzGerald was honored with the “Award for Public Sociology” from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association and frequently provides comment to local, national, and international media.

Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen (Germany). He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and is a research affiliate of the ERC-funded MIGRADEMO project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are political participation and inclusion of migrants with a focus on political parties, elections and civil society organisations. In his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas studied the political transnational activities of Latin American emigrants and political parties in Spain. Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative methods commonly used in political sociology.