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Dr. Marie Godin is a Lecturer in Human Geography at School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester. She is a Research associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford ). She is also Associate Editor for Migration Studies Journal (Review Editor) - https://academic.oup.com/migration/pages/Editorial_Board

Pedro Góis is a Professor in Sociology and Methodology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Undergraduate degree in Sociology, masters and PhD in Sociology. He is an expert in sociology of migration and quantitative methodologies. Recently he was consultant or country expert for the International Organisation for Migration (OIM), Caritas International, The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), European Commission or European Migration Network (EMN). His most recent research-driven publications used quantitative and qualitative methodologies and include papers and books on: refugees in Europe; transnational ethnic identity; Portuguese immigration and emigration; Brazilian migration or Eastern European migrants; discrimination practices in the labour market; immigrants' descendants; and diasporic engagement practices and policies.

Steven J. Gold is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His scholarly interests include international migration, ethnic economies, ethnic community development, qualitative field methods and visual sociology. Gold is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of nine books including The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington Press 2002) which won the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the ASA’s International Migration Section for the best book on international migration in 2003. His book Ethnic Economies, co-authored with Ivan Light of UCLA, has received 1496 Google Scholar citations. The chair of 22 PhD dissertations and author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews, Gold received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association in 2007 and was a Visiting Scholar for the Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master’s in International Migration and Social Cohesion program at the University of Amsterdam and University of Osnabruck during Fall 2014. He received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section in 2019.

I’m a Social Anthropologist from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). I have a Master in Medical Anthropology, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology specializing in Medical Anthropology, from the University of Rovira and Virgili (Spain). The title of my research thesis was: “TO BE AN INMIGRANT IS NOT AN ILLNESS”. Immigration, life and working conditions in Spain. The health/illness/care process of Senegalese immigrants in Barcelona”, qualified with honors (2004). Since then, the nature of the work I have performed has been Social, Cultural and Medical Anthropology, Public Health, International Migrations and Refugees, from a trasnational perspective.

I am a social scientist with research expertise in activism and civil society, post-conflict societies, the everyday, migration, inter-ethnic dynamics, identity and gender. My multi-disciplinary background and commitment to visual, sensory and mixed methods shape both my research and my teaching practice.

Montserrat has a PhD in Sociology (2014), degree in Sociology (1999) and an Official Master’s Degree in International Migration, specialising in Migratory Policies and Intercultural Mediation (2009), awarded by the University of A Coruña.
Is researcher in The International Migrations Sociology Group (initials in Spanish: ESOMI) is based in the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña (Spain)

Dr. Shelene Gomes is an Anthropologist who specialises in research, training and advocacy on social inclusion in migratory contexts, migrant networks, female labour migration, remittances, gender and development, gender-based violence, multiculturalism and diversity, and workplace discrimination. Over 10 years of professional experience includes university teaching, research, outreach and consulting with institutions in the Caribbean, Eastern and Southern Africa.

Researcher. Arabic & Islamic Studies. MRes in International Relations & African Studies. Decolonial responses to colonial practices in Humanitarianism in refugee communities of the WANA region.

Beatriz González-Martín received her PhD. in Migratory Studies, Development and Social Intervention from the University of Almeria (Spain) in 2013. Her doctoral thesis titled 'Rise and Fall of the Spanish construction sector: Its impact in social and labour situations of immigrant and native workers' was awarded the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in the category of Humanities for that year. Her research interests are focused on migrations, generally related to intergroup relations, integration, mobility, housing and homelessness. She has also worked on return and labour market insertion. Her expertise is in the application of qualitative methods. She has been working on the EU H2020 project YMobility: 'Youth Mobility: maximizing opportunities for individuals, labour markets and regions in Europe' (finished 2018). In this project, she coordinated the qualitative fieldwork carried out in Spain. Nowadays she is highly involved in other research projects related to migrant integration and she is opening a new line of research related to the residential and social exclusion of the immigrant population in Almería. She is currently working as Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, History and Humanities at the University of Almeria.

Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Her research agenda focuses on migrant mobility and integration, migration and trafficking, medicalization of human suffering, and migrancy and childhoods. From 2002 to 2018, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown. She also served as an editor-in-chief of International Migration, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on migration policy and research. In 2016, she was the George Soros Chair of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary.

Elżbieta is a recipient of several Fulbright grants as well as a residential fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. Her recent books include: Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat (Palgrave 2020) and Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values? (Routledge 2020) (editor with Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter).

Elżbieta received her doctorate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 1984.