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Hi, I am doing my PhD in Social Anthropology and my thesis focuses on uncertainty which is experienced by Syrian Refugees due to their status which is “under contemporary protection” and its affects on their decision illegal migration to the Europe to gain refugee rights.

Dr. Oksana Koshulko is a Ukrainian scientist. She has an M.A. degree in Economy and Society from Lancaster University and a PhD in Economic Sciences. Her areas of research are Gender and Migration Studies, including Refugeeism. Dr Koshulko has published over 150 scientific papers, books, and chapters of books in various countries as the results of her international projects, carried out in different international universities

Leah Koskimaki is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Social Development (ISD) and Coordinator for an interdisciplinary project on Migration and Mobilities in the Office of the DVC- Academic at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has conducted extensive research in India on small town youth politics, regionalism, development and migrant transnationalism. Her current research project, “Tailoring Futures”, interrogates the precarity, aspirations and religious networks of contemporary South Asian migrants in Cape Town, South Africa.

PhD candidate at TU Dublin, Ireland, MSc in International Business and BSc in Business & Management. I'm working closely with people from different countries, which gave me a better understanding of how important integration with the host society is and how much migrants valued their connections with their home country. I wrote a thesis: "The meaning of working among employees from different countries". This master thesis enhanced my interest in first- and second-generation migrants' acculturation process and transnational connections. This interest created an avenue to explore how first and second generation of Polish migrants make sense of the experience of acculturation and transnationalism.

Main research interests: migration studies, migration policies and practices, social and cultural history, social relationships, integration-assimilation, ethnic and social identity, oral history, migrants' correspondence and communication systems, human rights. Currently working on Russian emigration in Yugoslavia (1918-1941). Using interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodology, ranging from oral history to analyses of correspondence and auto/biographic texts.

PhD student at the University of Leeds' School of Sociology Social Policy and full-time lecturer at Brawijaya University's Department of Sociology

Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Director of research in geography. He works on the relationships between immigrant transnationalism and the state, with a focus on North African transnationalism. He extensively published on the migration and development relationship, diasporic memory, the moral geography of migration or the theory of transnationalism.

More recently, Lacroix’s research examines cities and city networks engagement on migration and integration issues. He is particularly interested in the place of cities in the building of a global migration governance framework. He also explores the epistemology of migration studies, with a special interest in the role of the Critique in migration research and the social engagement of scholars. He is engaged in a multidisciplinary dialogue between social scientists and other disciplinary domains such as the humanities, philosophy and mathematics.

Thomas Lacroix was awarded a PhD in geography and political sciences at the University of Poitiers (2003). He held research positions at the CEDEM (University of Liège), the Centre Jacques Berque (Rabat), the CRER (University of Warwick), the International Migration Institute (Oxford University), Migrinter (University of Poitiers) and the Maison Française of Oxford. He regularly teaches at the Master level at Sciences Po, Oxford University, the University of Poitiers and the University St Joseph in Beyrouth.

Thomas Lacroix is associate editor of Migration Studies, editor of the series "Migrations" at the Presses Universitaires François Rabelais and seats at the editorial board of Migration and Development (Routledge). He is fellow of the Institut Convergence Migrations in Paris and research associate at Migrinter and the Maison Française of Oxford.

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.