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Bernard LUTETE DI LUTETE, from Democratic Republic of Congo. An Engineer and an International Traveller, with better Experiences and knowledge’s performed on Environment, International Diplomacy, Politics and Local Governance, on Human Rights and International Migration Issues. Reliable, lively and adaptable professional with a background in technical education, a self-starter, equally comfortable as a team leader. Well-developed inter-personal skills, Still looking for opportunities to utilize existing skills, to learn more and work to support by his best national and international organizations, CSO, United Nations, to help protect our environment, to keep our world safe from climate, Democracy crisis, humanitarian and Migrations issues. Has performed multiple studies as the International politics and Diplomacy with ROME MUN and Giovani Nel Mondo Association at Rome Italy, the International water Law with UNITAR and the University of Geneva, the Municipal Finances for Local Governance with the World Bank Group. Has worked and keeping working since many years with The United Nations Systems: with Save the Climat in ECOSOC Status , with DPI, UNECA, UNDP project implementation, UN REDD+, UNEP-EBAFOSA, Africa CSO, With others strong international organizations as Member of CIVICUS World Alliance; working to support the International Migration Systems with GFMD and MADE from Europe and CORMSA at South Africa, and has also actively contributed with his organization Save the Climat for the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration at Marrakech Morocco on December 2018, Actually working as the President and CEO of SAVE THE CLIMAT which is a NGO In Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC since 2014, and Associated with UN DPI since 2015, and he is also working as a Regional Organizing Partner for NGO Major Group for Central Africa and Francophone Countries, which also agreed to be Member of the United Nations the United Nations Network on Migration.

I am currently doing a PhD on migrant integration policies in the UK. My research uses a critical realist zemiological (social harm) lens toward national policies that create marginalization, and the local level resistance to them, provided by the Local Welfare System in Bristol.

I am using a co-produced mixed-method approach for my PhD and have partnered with five organisations in Bristol as well as numerous individuals with lived experience to help shape the research questions and process.

I also have an interest in migrant and refugee entrepreneurship and have been working as the Senior Research Associate on the Migrant Business Support Project

I'm a a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and a Fellow of the Swiss national science program nccr on the move. In 2019, I have obtained my PhD in Political Science from University of Bern.

My main research interest is in understanding the political consequences of international migration and covers comparative politics as well as international governance.

Dr. Pilar Luz Rodrigues is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, of the University of Galway.

Previously, she was as a Research Assistant at the South East Technological University (SETU), working with the Dean of the School of Humanities on social and health related research projects. She also taught several courses within the School of Humanities at SETU between 2017 and 2023. In addition, Dr. Rodrigues has had research experience at international organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM - UN Migration), and NGOs, such as the Irish Council for International Students (ICOS).

Dr. Rodrigues concluded her PhD in Sociology in 2023, under the President's Scholarship, with a thesis titled 'Mitigating the Effects of Precarity: Brazilian Migrant Workers and Place-Making in Rural Ireland'. Her research involved one year and a half of fieldwork with Brazilian migrant workers in rural Ireland, particularly in Gort, Ireland's Little Brazil. She is currently working on the Irish Research Council (IRC) funded project 'Rural Villages, Migration and Intercultural Communication'. The study seeks to understand the linguistic background and the experience of migrants and refugees living in rural communities in Ireland, as well as how they use different languages in their daily lives. It also investigates any obstacles or opportunities in learning English and/or Irish in the community.

She has recently been awarded funding from the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Fund of the South East Technological University (SETU), for the project 'Understanding Race Equality in the South East'.

Dr. Rodrigues is a member of the Race and Ethnicity Study Group of the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI), of the Sociology of Migration Research Network of the European Sociological Association (ESA), and of the HIDDEN (History of Identity Documentation in European Nations) COST Action Network.

Her research interests include migration, social policy, and cultural diversity.

Associate professor at VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. My educational background is in religious studies and migration research. I have teaching, tutoring and course responsibilities at bachelor's, master and PhD levels. My research interests lie at the intersection of religion and migration, cultural history, minority issues, memory studies, transnational relations, intercultural communication, identity and conflict, narrative research and regional Middle Eastern studies.

Anissa holds a PhD in Political and social sciences from Université libre de Bruxelles (BE). She is currently an F.R.S-FNRS postdoctoral researcher (REPI, ULB) and an Affiliated Research Fellow at Oxford Department of International Development (University of Oxford). She conducts qualitative research on migrations, borders, and voluntary returns in North and West Africa (Morocco, Mali, Niger) and on local intermediation in international fields (development, humanitarian, military, academia) (Mali, DRC).

After 10 years working in humanitarian and development field, on refugee protection, gender-based violence prevention and response in conflict and displacement settings and gender mainstreaming, I have started PhD research at the crossroad between the fields of forced migration studies, gender studies and Middle-Eastern Studies. The subject of my PhD is the impact of conflict and displacement on gender relations throughout the migration route (using the example of post-2011 Syrian migrations)

Willem Maas, Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Public & International Affairs, and Socio-Legal Studies at York University, chairs Glendon Political Science, previously chaired Glendon Faculty Council for four years, and is also active in professional service, including currently serving on the executive of IPSA's Migration and Citizenship RC, vice-chair of ISA's ENMISA section, and remaining active in APSA's Migration and Citizenship section, which he co-founded. Professor Maas has held appointments at Yale, NYU, Radboud, Leiden, EUI, and elsewhere, heads the Canadian part of the Whole-COMM project, and also co-edits the Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship book series. He writes on EU and multilevel citizenship, migration, borders, free movement, and politics focusing on Europe and North America.

Migration Studies