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Jean-Michel Lafleur is Research Professor at the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Liège, Associate Director of CEDEM and a Senior Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). Jean-Michel is also the Coordinator of the IMISCOE Research Network (2022-2026). His area of expertise includes immigrants' access to welfare, EU mobility and the political participation of minorities.

Laura Lamas Abraira is a graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology and holds an international PhD in Intercultural Studies. Her research interests include care, migration and transnationalism, cultural engagement and social inequality.
Currently she is a Ramón y Cajal Junior fellow at the Department of Anthropology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and collaborator of the EU-funded project “ AccessIN: Social Inclusion and Access to Basic Services of Third-Country Nationals (EU-Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, AMIF 2020-AG).

PhD, Associate Professor and Researcher with a background in Economics and expertise in migration, diaspora and human capital development

I am a bachelor in Finance and international relations, MA in international cooperation. I started my road through the migration topic as a researcher in a University on trafficking in-person projects. Then I worked as a migration policy advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I have worked with the International Labor Organization and, the Organization of American States - OAS on labor migration projects, especially programs for seasonal workers. Since 2019 with the World Bank, I am co-coordinating the implementation of a migration and health project for Colombia.

PhD Candidate at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) and at the Research Unit of Migration and Society (URMIS). Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations. She holds a Master of Sciences in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a Master of Arts in Conflict, Security, and Development from King’s College London. Her fields of interest include emigration policies, diasporas in conflict, and political transnationalism. Her research focuses on the transnational political activities organised by Latin American migrants living in Brussels and Paris.

Dr Olawale Lawal holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's premiere University. He worked with the Royal Netherlands Embassy from 1997-2005 before joining the Department of History and International Studies, Lagos State University from 2005 to date He is a senior lecturer of the Department. Dr Lawal was a member of Lagos History Project established by the former Governor of Lagos Mr. Raji Babatunde Fashola from 2012-2015 and he was a member of the Lagos State research team to the National Archives, Kews Garden, London. Olawale is a member of the newly formed Lagos State Task Force against Human Trafficking by the Governor of Lagos State. He has published 23 articles in learned journals (including the Pariah State which Wikipedia has used majorly for its publication of the term) both local and international, Chapters in 3 books and 6 works completed and waiting for publication. He has attended a number of academic conferences, some of which are: the 30th Camden Conference on Refugees and Global Migration, Maine. USA, the 19th International Academic Conference, Florence, Italy, World Conference on Climate Change Paris, France, and many conferences locally. He is a member of the Refugee Council, London. Dr Olawale Lawal is the former Deputy Director of LASU Foundation Programme. He got the Research grant of the Tertiary Education Intervention Fund to embark on the Research 'Migration Industry in Nigeria". The research has since been concluded and published. He participated in the HOMSS Migration proposal to the European Commission which engaged 15 scholars from different parts of the world. Olawale Lawal is Associate Professor of Refugee and Migration Studies

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge is a Social Psychologist at the University of the West of England (UWE) who studies migration. She chairs the UWE Global Migration Network and convenes the annual Asylum Seeker and Refugee Wellbeing Conference at UWE. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked in International Development, and has conducted research in more than 25 countries. She has lived in Canada, Kenya, France, UK and Bangladesh.