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I am a social and political psychologist working through critical approches (anticolonial, CRT, liberation psychology among others). My research focus on collective action, identity, migration, discrimination by prioritizing a research praxis from below, through lay epistemologies of oppressed but resisting people and communities. I refused to be fully encapsulated in the neoliberal university system. Instead, through scientific affiliations, I try to conduct independent research with small academic grants. I also do translations to survive economically and to support my communities.

Associate Professor (with Agregação) in the Portuguese and Romance Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, since 1986. Phd in Comparative Literature ( 1998) , and tenure in Romance Literatures and Cultures ( On Transitive Literature and Nomadic Subjects, 2010]. In recent years, her research has been dedicated mainly to questions of interculturality and to literary and other representations of migration and exile .

Gianni D’Amato is Professor at the University of Neuchâtel, Director of the ‘NCCR – On the move’, and Head of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM). His main foci are addressing citizenship, mobility, populism, and the history of migration. Recent contributions in English include “Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus”, Migration Studies, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 631–649, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad023 (together with Marco Bitschnau), “Politicising immigration in times of crisis: empirical evidence from Switzerland”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1936471 (together with Marco Bitschnau, Leslie Ader and Didier Ruedin), and “The Battle over Rights in Switzerland. Populist Arguments against International Law”, in: Pieter Bevelander and Ruth Wodak (Eds.), Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist, and Global Challenges (259-280). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. (see: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2525-4608)

Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies, director of the MAPS (Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux) and project leader in the nccr-on the move, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is interested in understanding processes of mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion or gender. She is the co-director of the Standing Committee of “Reflexivities in migration studies” of IMISCOE https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/927-reflexive-migr….

Shannon Damery earned her PhD in December 2020 and has been a researcher in the CEDEM since 2013. Her manuscript is entitled, “At home 'outside': Young migrants aligning their 'home orbits' in the city of Brussels". She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on two international projects: The Horizion 2020 Project CHILD UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation) and UNIC (Unexpected Inclusions: Migration, Mobility and the Open City) led by the University of Geneva (IRS) and the University of Liège (CEDEM-IRSS) as part of the Lead Agency programme (SNF-FNSR). Her doctorate was part of the INTEGRIM ITN in which she was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the framework of the 7FP Training Network “Integration and international migration: pathways and integration policies.” Her research focuses on how young migrants’ official migratory status impacts their daily lives. She has experience in social work and earned her M.A. in Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. This degree was part of the European partnership program: CREOLE: Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes. She studied at the University of Vienna and conducted research at two sites: a refugee integration facility and the Vienna Youth and Family Offices. Her research interests include refugee issues, forced migration, home and homemaking, youth and childhood studies, arts and integration, and activism and political participation.

I am a Sociologist researching on migration. Presently, I am moderating a webinar series on covid and mobility called Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future (https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/webinare/2020-corona-conversa…) hosted by the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne and supported by the DAAD.
My current interest is in future of migration from the perspective of transnational practices of Indian women migrants in Germany especially those migrating under EU Blue Card scheme and for higher education. Significant rise in their arrival is changing the social-cultural landscape in Germany as these young women are visible in German public spaces, white-collar employees, often bring their male dependent partners and effectively combine 'home-here' practices to invent homeland in Germany.

I am also interested in migration-covid interface from the perspective of how does post-covid truth shape the future of migration.

Senior Director Alankrita Dayal is the North America Focal Point Lead for Experience Design at the United Nations, Migration Division.

She manages all digital initiatives spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Contact her at alankrita.dayal@unmgcy.org

Since 2021 Phd Student of Territory, Risk & Public Policy’s - Coimbra University- Portugal, Creating solutions with an interdisciplinary background on High Arts Matters.
He is also specialised in materials has Painting, video, light, sound, music, sculpture …Concrete, Resins, Plastic, Clays … Since 1998 he was responsible by active social actions like Ascensor-informal group for art diffusion, 110 W for Porto European capital of culture, Caldas Late Night-open studios, Caldas da Rainha, 555 - association Rua do Almada 2005, Porto and, then later “Hotel 555”in Duque do Loulé 2010 and Passeio de Sao Lazaro Porto, till 2013. Silos Creative container in 2004 - Caldas da Rainha. Since 2017 he is the founder of Konsolidarte Internacional and now the first presentation of the Gab. of Cultural Action in Porto.

Since 2017 more complex and recently Culture Design Projects like “Konsolidarte internacional action of regenerative Cultural Education Model “ Timor Leste 2017. Started working for organisations at the age of 7 years old, part of the catholic Scouts, Consultant in Foundations and Non profit organisations like: APDES - Arcozelo, Portugal in 2008/09, OAK tree Foundation - Ba-Futuro in Dili Timor Leste, Xanana Gusmão Foundation- Timor Leste, External Consultant till December 2018 in U.S.A.The Asian Foundation- Dili, Timor Leste. Also work in communication company’s has art director or project manager. Founder and author, uses his artistic signature has R.Gritto since 2009, travel and lived long periods of time in USA - Califórnia, Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, Timor Leste, Macau and he is now based in Paris since 2019

I am a doctoral researcher investigating the mobilisations of South Asian diaspora in the UK. My work aims to explain why and how migrants (and their descendents) unite through civil society, media, activtist and development organisations or collectives. In doing so, I also address the conditions where unification is fragmented or strained. And lastly, I look to the impacts of diaspora mobilisations, at both the transnational and local levels.