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Sanam Vaghefi is a sociologist and qualitative researcher with a doctoral degree from the University of Victoria. Her research on the Iranian refugees in Canada was awarded the Best Student Paper Award by IRCC in 2021.
Her research interests include refugee migration, mental health, health inequities, migrant agency, digital ethnography and autoethnography. Her Ph.D. Project is entitled 'Exploring the Health and Migration Trajectories of Iranian Refugees in Canada'. Sanam is currently employed as a full-time faculty member at Capilano University, North Vancouver.

I graduated from the Immigration and Settlement Studies Master Program at Ryerson University. I hold a PhD in Social and Political Sciences by Iberoamericana University, Mexico. I am currently a full-time professor at the International Studies Department at Iberoamericana and teach in the Master in Migration Studies. I am also member of the Mexican National Research System and a founding partner of Laboratorio de Inivestigación Social Justicia en Movimiento, a Mexican NGO. My research interests focus on protection of nationals abroad, Diaspora-State relations, borders and migrant integration.

Graduate Student at the KTH - Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Department of Philosophy and History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment (2015). I am part of the Marie Sklodowska Curie ITN program in Environmental Humanities ENHANCE. I am interested in working at the intersection between Environmental History, Environmental Humanities and Migration Studies, touching also upon Cultural Heritage, Memory Studies, Oral History, Psychogeography, and Political Ecology.

Currently, I am working on my doctoral thesis, which is provisionally entitled: "Coal Lives. Italians and the Metabolism of Coal in Wallonia, Belgium".

To scrutinize the socio-political implications of international migration, my work develops a transdisciplinary and transnational approach to human mobility.

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Doctora en Economía. MBA y Magister en Gerencia de Proyectos de Ingeniería. Economista
Adicionalmente, capacitada en cursos del BCR; la Universita de Trento -Italia. Ha desarrollado proyectos e investigaciones económicas en diversas empresas del medio. Actualmente Directora de la Carrera Profesional de Economía.
Experiencia profesional en el desarrollo de proyectos internacionales y nacionales de alto impacto en el desarrollo del país. Colaboradora Externa de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones.
Especialidades: mercado laboral, movilidad laboral, y actualmente trabajando el tema de Migraciones Internacionales y Remesas. Tercera Misión.

Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.

Professor of migration history