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Lotte Pelckmans is an anthropologist who has been working on social mobility, displacement, social media, nomadism and rights at the crossroads of (post-)slavery and migration studies, with a focus on francophone West Africa. Currently I am employed as associate professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, Copenhagen University.

I studied and worked at Leiden University (Anthropology, African Studies Centre, Institute for History) and was associate professor at Nijmegen University (Anthropology and Development Studies). I obtained an EU co-fund scholarship for a year in French academia (CEAF, EHESS) and worked as a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (2015-2016), Copenhagen, Denmark.

In 2016 I co-edited the documentary movie ‘River Nomads’, which is about the transnational mobility of nomadic fishermen in West Africa (Nigeria, Niger, Mali). From 2017 I work at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (https://amis.ku.dk) part of the SAXO institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2018 I combined my lecturer position there with a postdoc in the project readingslavery.au.dk at Comparative Literature, Aarhus University. From 2018, I started working as an editorial board member of the recently established journal ‘Slaveries and Post-Slaveries’, based at CIRESC in France. In 2019 I was a senior Heinz Heinen fellow at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), Germany. The fellowship was about testimonies for legal court cases, in contemporary ‘post-slavery’ societies of French West Africa. From early 2020, I started working as a Co-I on a collaborative GCRF/UKRI UK funded research project, about Protracted Displacements of People with slave status in Mali, West Africa, while based at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, Copenhagen University.

Michaela Pelican is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. She is also the Speaker of the international research unit 'The production and reproduction of social inequalities‘ and the Director of the international research cluster ‘Conflict-Induced Displacement and Socio-Economic Resilience: Learning From Neglected Conflicts in Cameroon and Myanmar’.
Michaela’s thematic foci are South-South mobility, social inequality, ethnicity, conflict, and research methodology. Her regional focus is on Sub-Saharan Africa (in particular Cameroon), the United Arab Emirates and Southern China.

I am currently pursuing my PhD in Population Studies at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique. My research interests are centered around the themes of international migration, wealth inequality, transnationalism, finance, and intersectionality. My research project focused on wealth accumulation processes and financial integration among Colombian immigrants residing in Montreal, with a specific focus on gender.

ANA PAULA PENCHASZADEH holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), a Master's degree in Sociology and Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Philosophy from the Université Paris 8 (France). She is an independent researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas and at the Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales (EIDAES) of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina). Also, she is an undergraduate and graduate professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires on issues related to hospitality and contemporary migrations from a practical and theoretical political perspective. She currently coordinates the LATAM chapter of the MIGMOBS ERC AdG a project led by Professor Adrian Favell (https://www.ucc.ie/en/migmobs/project/) and is part of the CAMINAR Network team (https://www.caminaramericas.org/equipo), among other projects of interest.

Alexandra Pereira, Postdoc Research Fellow in Integral Human Development (IHD) at CADOS, Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). PhD by ISEG - University of Lisbon with a thesis entitled "Transborder Himalaya - Processes of Transnationalism Among Nepalese Entrepreneurs and Workers in Lisbon" (2019) and MA in Clinical Psychology by Coimbra University (2004). Researches Nepalese Migration in Portugal (entrepreneurship, labour, networks, female migrants, new media usage, mobility), Nepalese Transnational Networks and Nepalese in Europe. Conducted FAMI Project "Migration and Labour Exploitation of Nepalese in Agriculture in Portugal" (2017-2019).

Doctor in Social Sciences. Social researcher in the field of international migration and immigration policy.
Degree in Law with training and professional experience in the Third Sector as a volunteer and technician for social action NGOs and support for migrants. UN Online Volunteer Latin America and the Caribbean (UNV ROLAC) collaborating in the research project on the level of integration of volunteering in the public policies of LAC countries.
Professional experience in technical-legal and administrative jobs in the private sector.
Research lines: irregular migration, securitization, immigration and border control policies, action of CSOs in migration contexts; Migration, development, and climate change.
Currently a Researcher attached to the University Institute of Human Rights (IDHUV) within the framework of the R+D+I project: "Migration, Climate Change and Development Cooperation. Flows, impacts and policy coherence in the cases of Morocco and Senegal in relation to Spain" (MIGRACLIMA) (Knowledge Generation Call 2021, Ministry of Science and Innovation).
Personal website: https://isoldapc.wixsite.com/investigadorasocial
https://inmide.wordpress.com/investigadores/

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Manchester, UK and has recently finished a three year postdoc position at the HOMInG Project, University of Trento. His research interests include home and home-making, conflict-induced displacement, migration and mobilities, and ageing. Recent publications include ‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’ (Migration Studies, 2021), ‘Remaking a place called home following displacement (in the Routledge Handbook of Place, 2020), Thinking home on the move (co-authored, 2020) and ‘Where the heart is and where it hurts’ (Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2019).

Jean Edwidge Petit-frère is currently finishing a master’s degree in International Migrations with a focus on actors and institutions of migration, reception, and international solidarity in France. He is the Head of Research at The HAITI Migration group, an organization whose mission is to contributes to better migration policy development in Haiti.