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Federica current research interrogates contemporary concerns in Europe regarding migration as represented in cultural practices.

She is the author of Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion (Peter Lang, 2019), which explores how activist and art forms have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration and generating a vital form of political dissent. Federica co-curated an exhibition on the subject of migrant death at sea, called "Sink Without Trace" which took place in June-July 2019 at the P21 Gallery in London. The exhibition focussed on art being made on the subject by artists who have experienced forced migration personally, shown alongside international artists.

She is involved in several interdisciplinary projects on migration, including a collective writing project called Minor Keywords of Political Theory: Migration as a Critical Standpoint (2021).
She has been working with NGOs and Charities including Migrant Voice, Art Refuge, Counterpoints Arts and Migration Collective.

Federica is the review editor of the journal Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (Intellect.)

Alessandro Mazzola is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liège, working primarily at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies CEDEM. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Liège with a NON-FRIA scholarship. He also worked as a post-doc researcher at the Group for research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Free University of Brussels. Alessandro’s areas of expertize include the cultural expression and political mobilization of minorities, the integration of newcomers in multicultural societies including refugees and asylum seekers, the political debate on populism, xenophobia and the extreme-right.

Valentina Mazzucato is Professor of Globalisation and Development at Maastricht University. She has been awarded 5 large-scale, international and interdisciplinary research grants to conduct multi-sited research in migrants’ African countries of origin and in communities where they live in European cities. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) one of the highest honours conferred to scientists in The Netherlands. She heads interdisciplinary and multicultural teams that conduct multi-sited research.She has published widely on transnational migrant networks, transnational family life and the effects of mobility on the life worlds of youth with a migration background. She was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator grant.

Dr. Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research Division at IOM in Geneva. She is an international migration specialist with 20 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior official and researcher.
Marie is a senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Sir Roland Wilson Fellow at the School of Demography at the Australian National University (ANU). She is a member of MIT’s Global Technology Review Panel, IUSSP’s panel on international migration and curates the World Economic Forum’s Migration Transformation Map. Marie has published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration. She edited IOM’s flagship World Migration Report 2018 (with Martin Ruhs) and the World Migration Report 2020 (with Binod Khadria).
Marie has led research, analysis and policy teams in government and previously consulted to IOM, ILO as well as in the private sector, including in South Korea, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey. For three years (2012–2014), Marie directed the $6.5 million Australian irregular migration research program, from which stems an ANU Press book that she edited (with Khalid Koser).
In late 2014 Marie was awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship to complete her doctoral research at ANU on irregular migration (approved late 2017). She is the 2018 recipient of the Charles Price Prize in demography for outstanding doctoral research in migration studies.

Dr Gillian McFadyen is a Lecturer at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. Gillian's research engages with the area of refugee studies. She is particularly interested in refugee law, the British Asylum system, EU process, as well as applying theories such as hospitality, labelling and postcolonialism to the refugee regime. She also has an interest in memory, trauma, silence and their application to refugee politics. Gillian's first book, Refugees in Britain: Practices of Hospitality and Labelling was published with Edinburgh University Press (2020).

She is continuing her research on the politics of hospitality, applying the practice to the climate emergency, examining the projection of British hospitality/hostipitality, as well as exploring the potential of community embedded climate hospitality as resistance.

Jennifer McGarrigle holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow, UK. She is a researcher in the Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG) and an Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Her research interests cover international migration, migrant integration and urban change.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London (GlobalGRACE AHRC/GCRF project). Research areas: gender & sexuality, migration, asylum, NGOs, social justice movements, creative research methods. PhD in Anthropology; MA in Visual Anthropology. Editor and columnist, Red Pepper magazine.

Qualified lawyer with over 15 years of combined experience in human rights practice, education and research. His PhD is from the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at the University of London. Sam spent three years of his PhD as a visiting scholar at Vienna University under the supervision of Professor Manfred Nowak.
A lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sam is currently working on the project 'Refugee Lives Matter: Protecting the human rights of migrants and refugees through international and regional obligations to investigate deaths'.