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Dr. Eveline Reisenauer is researcher at the Munich-based German Youth Institute (DJI). Previously, she was post-doc researcher in the RTG "Transnational Social Support" (TRANSSOS) at the University of Hildesheim, and research collaborator and assistant for research and teaching at the "Center for Migration, Citizenship and Development" (COMCAD) at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

Yvonne Riaño is an Associate Professor at the Geography Institute of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), and chairs the Swiss National Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU). She is also a Research Project Leader at the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research - The Migration-Mobility Nexus, and leads the 'Transnational Mobilities' Module. Yvonne Riaño obtained a PhD in Human Geography in 1996 from the University of Ottawa (Canada), and has since taught at Canadian, Austrian and Swiss universities. She specialises on Geographies of Inequality. Using a feminist perspective and participatory methodologies, her work contributes to understanding self-organisation in Latin American informal settlements; the role of geographical imaginations in international migration; love migration as search for gender equality; the critical places and moments shaping gender- and ethnic inequality in the labour-market, the role of migration policies in shaping unequal work opportunities, and the strategies of return migrants. Currently, she studies transnational migrant entrepreneurship in Colombia, Spain and Switzerland. Yvonne Riaño has being a Guest Editor for Globalisation, Societies and Education, Qualitative Research, and Géoregards. She has extensively published in international books and peer-reviewed journals including Environment and Planning A; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Journal of International Migration and Integration; Globalisation, Societies and Education; Diversities; Géoregards; Oxford Bibliographies, Population, Space and Place, and Qualitative Research.

My research focuses on migration histories and the experiential qualities of place, developing a landscape specific contribution within a broad field of literature encompassing belonging and isolation, conviviality and racism, transnational connections and the shaping of cultures of use of public open space. I firmly believe in producing research in collaboration with others and I am committed to working with the professional and voluntary sector in all my research projects.
Through a number of research projects, these themes have been developed within two more specific strands: 1) Inclusive Public Open Spaces and 2) Diverse nature connections.

Dan Rodríguez-García is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the INMIX-Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His areas of research are international migration, interethnic relations, identity, racism and discrimination, with a particular focus on ‘mixedness’ (intermarriage and multiracialism).

Postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated record of research success in Balkan Studies, South-East European Studies, Border Studies and Migration Studies. Currently postdoctoral fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. PhD thesis on Slavic and Albanian collective memory and contemporary identity discourses in Macedonia defended at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). Research conducted addresses the interface of visual culture, anthropology and memory studies, and focuses on South Slavic-Albanian borderlands.

Taras Romashchenko is a Ukrainian scholar with research interests in international economics, international labour migration and diaspora, FDI and remittances. PhD in Economics and Associate Professor at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy. He is also a senior lecturer in international economic relations and migration, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University (Germany) and has been a visiting research fellow at Danube University Krems (Austria).

Sanam Roohi is a Marie Curie COFUND fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, currently researching the transnationalisation of the Telangana movement. She defended her thesis ‘Giving Back: Diaspora Philanthropy and the Transnationalisation of Caste in Guntur (India)’ from the University of Amsterdam in December 2016. Her research outputs include publication of a few book chapters and articles in journals including Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, International Political Sociology and Ethnic and Migration Studies, apart from a co-produced film on diaspora philanthropy. She worked as an assistant professor at St. Joseph’s (Autonomous), Bangalore, between September 2016 and April 2018. Roohi was a 2018 SSRC InterAsia Fellow at the Global and Transregional Studies Platform, Georg-August University, Göttingen. She has also been awarded a Humboldt fellowship which starts in September 2020 at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.

Dr. Mariana Rosca has been enrolled in the Ph.D. program on Human Rights: Ethical, Social, and Political Challenges funded by Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Programme, where she focusses on social integration of religious minorities. Born in Moldova, living in different countries within and outside Europe, much of Mariana’s personal interests, academic passion and intellectual curiosity have revolved around diaspora communities, migration, religious minorities and social integration. She holds a BA in Economy and Sociology from Academy of Economic Studies, Republic of Moldova, a MA in Global Development and Social Justice from St. John´s University, New York and a second Master in Advanced European and International Studies from European Institute, France.