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Ilenia Maria Calafiore is geopolitical analyst, specialized in Climate Change related Migration. She is researcher affiliated to Instituto Seneca, Centro Internacional de Posgrado, where she is enrolled in Master in Migraciòn y Atenciòn al Refugiado. She already holds a bachelor in International Studies.

Dr Klement Camaj is a Lecturer with the University of the West of Scotland within the Master of Public Administration program. Dr Camaj is a multilingual, multimethodological, storytelling researcher focused on international migration, transnationalism, and cultural identity. Klement received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Radford University in the United States, his master’s degree in Geopolitics, Territory, and Security, from King’s College London, and PhD in International Migration, Transnationalism, and Cultural Diplomacy from the University of the West of Scotland. His research focus is mainly located within the connected fields of Migration studies and Transnationalism, with a special interest in issues of diaspora and cultural identity.

Klement's main strengths consist in qualitative and multidisciplinary work, using ethnographic, narrative, and multimethodological approaches towards data collection and analysis. Klement is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of The Royal Anthropological Institute. Klement tweets as @DrCamaj and his contact e-mail is klement.camaj@uws.ac.uk.

Jáfia Naftali Câmara earned her BA in English Literature, Criticism and Theory from the University of California in 2015 and a MA in English and Foreign Language Education from New York University in 2017. Jáfia is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol's School of Education, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on refugee and asylum-seeking students’ perspectives and experiences of education.

Stefano Camatarri is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he is also member of the research group in Transnational Relations, Democratization and Migration (TransDeM). Previously, he was JSPS Fellow at Waseda University (Japan) and FSR post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research interests regard the comparative study of political behaviour and attitudes, electoral competition, migrant political participation and engagement 'across borders'. His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as European Union Politics, Political Studies Review, the Swiss Political Science Review and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Seda CAN TOPKAN received her PhD degree in Sociology from Hacettepe University in 2022. Her research focuses on the transnational political participation of Turkish-Belgian dual citizens living in Belgium.

Nergis Canefe is a Professor at the Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Canada and a graduate faculty member at Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Socio-Legal Studies, Humanities, Osgoode Hall Law School and Graduate Programme in
Public Policy and Law at the same institution. She received her PhD at York University, Programme in Social and Political Thought and her SJD (PhD in Law) at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. She is a Middle Eastern-Canadian scholar of applied political philosophy, comparative politics and international criminal law. Before joining York University, she was the inaugural post-doctoral fellow of the Past and Present Society, Oxford University, a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and the European Institute, London School of Economics. She also held teaching posts at Binghamton University, New York, USA, Bogazici and Bilgi University in Turkey, and Shanghai University, China. She was a Harley Harlett scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School and has held two consecutive fellowships at IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna, Austria (2021/2022). She is the current and immediate past Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), and the inaugural program co-director for the organization’s Arts and Forced Migration initiative. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Forced Migration, Northwestern University, USA, and Delhi School of Transnational Affairs (DSTA), Delhi University, India. She is the co-editor of journal Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Nations and Nationalism (1998-2006), Displaced Voices: Journal of Living Archives, and Mülkiye SBF Dergisi. She has been a frequent guest editor for the journal Refuge published by MCRG, Kolkata, India. She served as the Associate Director for the Center for Refugee Studies (2008-2013), and is an associate faculty member of both the CRS and Nathanson Center at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. She is also an adjunct faculty associate at the Center for the Study of Human Rights Law, Bilgi University Faculty of Law since 2009, and Center for Human Rights Law at Bilkent University Faculty of Law since 2022. She is a member of the Turkish chapter of IVR (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy). She is also the advisory board member of Lives in Dignity Grant Facility and the Western Minaret Organization.
Canefe is a practicing visual artist and mural painter with several exhibitions and installations in public spaces in Canada, Turkey and Cyprus. Since 2017, she has been experimenting with art/essay format in her academic publications. She has widely published on historical injustice, accountability regimes, politics of dispossession, mass displacement, excesses of nationalism, trauma and memory as well as ethics of witnessing and war crimes/crimes against humanity nexus. Her most recent research addresses the dispossession of unorthodox minorities in the Middle East, and, ethics of witnessing vis-à-vis work on human suffering.
Current Projects:
 Statelessness as a Permanent State (York University, Canada)
 Ethics of Witnessing and Redefining Collective Responsibility (IWM visiting fellow, Vienna, Austria)

Fields of Research:
• Global Politics of Dispossession
• Critical Forced Migration and Citizenship Studies
• Trauma, Memory, Atrocities of War and Societal Crimes
• Jurisprudential debates on International Criminal Law
• Nationalism and Mass Violence
• Theories of Justice and Debates on Collective Responsibility
• Politics and Ethics of Hope

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in material culture, transnationalism, kinship and migrant infrastructure. I gained my PhD in Anthropology at UCL and my thesis looked at parcel-sending in Moldovan transnational families as a shared practice of staying connected across borders. My current project explores transnational parcel-sending practices as a form of solidarity with Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.

I do research on global migration, immobility and transnationalism. My work seeks to explain how migration arises, and how it affects societies, families and individuals. These broad questions have led to research on a range of specialized topics, including migrant smuggling, and remittance transactions, and migration aspirations. My theoretical contributions to migration studies include the aspiration/ability model (2002), the concept of involuntary immobility (2002), the asymmetries of migrant transnationalism (2008), the integration-transnationalism matrix (2014) and the scripting of remittances (2014). I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, l have a strong interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication.