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Having recently completed a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Sussex on the bilateral transnational visiting mobilities of migrants and non-migrants between the UK and Bangladesh, Farid is currently working as a Research Fellow on the Horizon 2020 MIRNet project on ‘Migration and Integration Research and Networking’. He also teaches Global Migration, Culture Across Space and Time, and Introductory Human Geography as a School Tutor in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.

Domna Michail is a Professor of Anthropology of Education, Migration and Minorities, at the Department of Communication and Digital Media of the University of Western Macedonia-Greece (UOWM). She has completed her Bachelor Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Diploma of Advanced Studies and Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) in Great Britain. Currently she is the Director of the Center of Migration and Social Studies of the School of Social and Humanities Studies of the UOWM.

Benjamin is an economist. He is an expert on asylum seekers and refugees. He is researcher at the Paris School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the International Migration Economics Chair and Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris).

After obtaining his PhD (2017) at PSE/Paris I, he worked for several years as an economist in French Public Institutions (French Treasury and French Development Agency), where he conducted numerous analytical works in the context of economic crisis for the offices of the President of the Republic and the Minister of Economy.

His current research focuses on the evaluation of social and economic integration mechanisms for vulnerable populations, with a particular focus on refugees and the public policies dedicated to them. He directed the most important survey ever conducted in France on refugees: the survey on the Origin and Perspective of Refugees in France (OPReF).

Arnfinn H. Midtbøen is a Professor of sociology at the University of Oslo. Midtbøen's research interests center on immigration and integration, including topics such as employment discrimination, integration, citizenship, descendants of migrants in education and work, and the history of migration research. In his research, Midtbøen combines a range of methods, including field and survey experiments, qualitative interviews, document analysis and traditional surveys. Midtbøen’s research has appeared in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), Annual Review of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Dr. Inta Mierina is the Director of The Center for Migration and Diaspora Research and tenured professor at the University of Latvia Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. She has directed several research grants on migration, including the ESF research grant “The Emigrant Communities of Latvia,” in which 14,068 Latvian emigrants were surveyed in 118 countries. She has been involved in a number of international comparative studies concerning migrants, mostly their civic and political participation, working careers, inequality, and well-being. She is the country coordinator of the European Values Study (EVS) in Latvia. Mieriņa has been a visiting researcher at academic institutions in Germany, Denmark, Poland, and the U.S. – at the University of Washington as a Fulbright research fellow (2015), as well as at the University of Yale as Juris Padegs Post-doctoral fellow (2016). Her publications have appeared in Social Science Research, The Sociological Review, European Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, and other journals.

Is a DAAD professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She is also professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). In the spring semesters of 2020 and 2022 she was visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). She has participated in more than 20 sociological research projects, in 10 of which she was a principal investigator. She researches a wide range of areas, including the historical aspects of deviant and delinquent behavior, urban studies, paramilitary motivations, forced displacement, migration and has over twenty years of research and teaching experience. In 2016 she was a visiting professor in Ukraine European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Science (Vienna), and in 2015 she was Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute.

Stefan Millar is a doctoral candidate in the Law and Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. He earned a BSc in Anthropology at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), and then conducted his Master’s studies in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (with a specialization in Social Anthropology) at Tampere University (Finland). Currently, his research examines the role of states within Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement in Turkana county, Kenya. The researcher is a part of a cohort “the technicization of exclusionary practices in the context of migration” at the Law and Anthropology Department, which critically examines the expansion and impact of the EU’s legal and technological strategies to control migration.

Marika Miminoshvili is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her main research interests relate to labor (high-skilled) migrants' work-related experiences. In particular, the impact of the perceived workplace exclusion-inclusion on labor migrants' knowledge sharing and hiding behaviors at work.