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Megha Amrith has been the leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at MPI-MMG since January 2018. Her research focuses on migrant labour, care, ageing, gender, inequalities, belonging and citizenship, primarily in Southeast Asia, but also drawing upon comparative ethnographic perspectives beyond the region. She is author of the monograph “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2017) and her current research is on ageing migrant domestic workers. Megha Amrith obtained a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge under a Gates Cambridge scholarship. Prior to joining MPI-MMG, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the University of São Paulo (2012-2013) and a research fellowship at the United Nations University Institute for Globalization, Culture and Mobility, Barcelona (2014 – 2017).

Carljohnson Anacin completed his PhD at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and currently working as a sessional lecturer/tutor and researcher at the same university. His doctoral research is on the identity, musicality and translocality of Filipino migrant musicians in Australia. Carl's research interests include popular music, migration, social media and interdisciplinary studies. His recent publications include Musical Aspirations and DIY/DIO Practices in Online Communities of Amateur Independent Filipino Songwriters in Rethinking the Music Business: Music Contexts, Rights, Data, and COVID-19 (edited by Guy Morrow, Daniel Nordgard, & Peter Tschmuck, 2022, Palgrave Macmillan). Carl is also a practising musician, volunteer worker, photographer, and radio host (Radio 4EB, Brisbane).

Nina Trige Andersen is a journalist and historian (double major from Roskilde University, Denmark) affiliated with the Society for Labour History (SFAH) in Denmark. She publishes on migration, labour, organizing, and women’s work in academic journals, magazines and newspapers. She is the author of 'Labor Pioneers. Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015' (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019) and 'Profession: Filippiner. Kvinder på arbejde i Danmark gennem fire artier' [Profession: Filipina. Women at work in Denmark through four decades] (Tiderne Skifter, 2013) for which she was awarded the Rudolf Meidner Prize in 2017. Creator of the online archive www.filippinernesdanmarkshistorie.dk. In the coordination group of Nordic Labour History Network and the organizing team of Nordic Labour History Conference 2020 as well as co-responsible for the working group Spatial Mobilities under Global Labour History Network. Work freelance for various media, institutions, and organizations. Was external consultant for the ILO on a research project about home-based work globally in 2019-2020.

Sociologist and lawyer, professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Research interests: immigrants in the labour market, migrant entrepreneurship, educational migrations

I am an interdisciplinary scholar in social sciences delivering empirically-based original work in international labour migration. My current research investigates the globalisation of electronics firms and studies how TNCs' production and management practices are engendering novel migration flows and regimes of labour control in Central and Eastern Europe. My earlier work focused on human trafficking for sexual expoitation and its link to the reorganisation of citizenship in enlarged Europe. I explore these topics in detail in my research monograph 'Agency, Migration and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking' (Palgrave, 2010) . I have also co-edited the volume 'Flexible workforces and low profit margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China' (ETUI, 2016) and several special issues such as 'Foreign Workers: On the Other Side of Sexual, Gendered, Political and Ethical Borders' with Organization (2019); 'Digital Labour' with Feminist Review (2019); 'Le migrazioni lavorative intra-UE: modelli, pratiche e traiettorie di mobilita dei cittadini europei' with Mondi Migranti (2016); 'Trafficking Representation' with Anti-Trafficking Review (2016); 'Revolutions' with Feminist Review (2014); and 'Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities' with Subjectivity (2009).

Apostolos Andrikopoulos is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on issues of kinship and marriage, migration and citizenship, and gender and sexuality.

His book Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2023) examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe.