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I'm a Ph.D. student at Florida International University, Global and Sociocultural Studies department. I'm a Sociology track. My current research interests are Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigrants in the U.S. and identity construction.

Witold Klaus – holds PhD in law, he is a professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (head of the Department of Criminology and of the Centre for Migration Law Research) and a research fellow in the Centre of Migration Research at Warsaw University; He is a lawyer, criminologist, migration researcher and activist - he was one of the founders and currently serves a member of the Board for the Association for Legal Intervention (was a chairman between 2005 and 2019).

Weronika Kloc-Nowak, PhD, is a sociologist employed at the Centre of Migration Research, Warsaw. She researches migrant families, with a particular focus on care, kinship and migrants' reproductive behaviours. Recent projects include "Grandparenting at a distance" a mixed-methods study of older Poles with geographically dispersed kin networks, and MIGFERT: "International mobility and disruptions in fertility patterns – towards new insights from a low fertility context". Weronika has extensive experience in qualitative methods, especially the biographic narrative interpretative method. She obtained her PhD from European University Institute, Florence, in 2015.

Lucas Kluge is a Doctoral researcher in the group "Impacts of climate change on human population dynamics" at the Potsdam institute for climate impact research. His PhD project is titled "Heterogeneity and scale interactions in human migration and displacement" and supervised by Prof. Levermann and Dr. Jacob Schewe

Prior to his position at PIK he worked on complex networks, quantum networks and the numerical simulation of quantum dot lasers. Besides his studies at the Technical University Berlin, he was a visiting scholar at Duke University and University of Crete.