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Ilan Kelman http://www.ilankelman.org and Twitter/Instagram @IlanKelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org ; (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations http://www.islandvulnerability.org ; and (iii) risk education for health and disasters http://www.riskred.org

I am a sociologist and I work as an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

My research broadly falls under the areas of ethnic and migration studies, sociology of education and family, as well as youth sociology, with a focus on social inequalities. I am particularly interested in how ethnic, social class and gender inequalities are (re)produced or overcome applying a comparative lens.Currently I am working on a research project concerning the parenting practices in diverse settings among caregivers with and without a migration background.

Nina Khamsy is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Nina conducts multisited and multimodal ethnographic research on the role of digital resources in migration on the so-called "Balkan route". Her current project is entitled 'Scales of mobility of Afghan migrant youth in the digital era' (2019-2023).

Themrise N Khan is an Independent development professional with over 20 years of experience in international development, social policy (developing countries) and global migration. She has worked with several bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, and including, but not limited to; DFID UK, Global Affairs Canada, the International Labour Organization, the UN Agency for Migration, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development and the World Bank Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD).

Her main expertise lies in leading qualitative thematic and policy research studies. She has published both academically and as a research practitioner, including for the University of Ottawa Press and the ILO, on issues ranging from development aid intervention in fragile states, to female labour migration in Pakistan. Her interest in migration lies in, among other areas, understanding transnational citizenship, South-South migration regimes and encouraging scholarship in migration research and policy by the South, for the South. She has recently begun a career as an emerging academic teaching international development and migration at Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan.

I am an Associate Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences. My primary area of expertise is Postcolonial Studies . Other areas of research and interest include: Migration, Partition of India, Violence, Human Rights, Climate Change and Teaching.