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Dr Wayne Palmer is a Southeast Asianist and a migration scholar with extensive experience providing paralegal assistance to migrant workers claiming labour and employment rights. He uses social-legal approaches to examine legal and policy frameworks that govern labour and migration.

Dr. Virginia Paloma is the Director of the Center of Community Research and Action (CESPYD, https://cespyd.es/en/) at the University of Seville (US, Spain), where she is Assistant Professor of Community Psychology at the Department of Social Psychology. She is also the Co-coordinator of the US’ Master Program ‘International Migrations, Health and Wellbeing: Models and Strategies for Intervention’; and Vice Dean for Community Outreach and Institutional Relations at the US’ Faculty of Psychology. Her research interests revolve around activism, liberation, social change, well-being and social justice in the context of migrant and refugee populations. She has led several projects in these domains such as ‘Immigrant Well-being and Social Justice in Andalusia: Building a Multilevel Dynamic System’ funded by the Andalusian Public Foundation ‘Centro de Estudios Andaluces’; and ‘Humanitarian crisis and Improvement of Psychological Well-being among the Refugee Population settled in Andalusia’ funded by Lafourcade-Ponce Spanish Foundation.

Élise Palomares is a socio-anthropologist and lecturer at the University of Rouen, in the Dysolab (Laboratoire des Dynamiques Sociales – “Social Dynamics laboratory”) research unit, and an associate member of Urmis–Paris (Unité de recherches ‘Migrations et Société’, Paris – “‘Migration and Society’ research unit, Paris”). Her research concerns minority situations in the postcolonial cities, based on fieldwork conducted both in France and in South Africa. She has coordinated, with Elise Lemercier and Valelia Muni Toke, a special issue on “Inequalities in French overseas territories” for the journal Terrains et Travaux.

Pau Palop-García (PhD, 2019) is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy (University of Erfurt) and a Research Associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He specializes in the study of migration policies and the political representation of migrant communities in their states of origin.

Pau Palop-García holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the Free University of Berlin and has published in academic journals such as Democratization, Citizenship Studies, or the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Carles Pamies is Adjunct Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at Sciences Po, Paris, where he is also member of the ActEU project. His main research interests include political parties, political elites, and migrants' representation and voting behaviour.

Aron (he/his) is a registered psychometrician, researcher, and currently a PhD Psychology student at the Australian National University. His research passion lies in Critical Health Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Stigma, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQIA+, and Health Communication.

His dedication aims to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes for marginalized groups. Through his research, Aron seeks to understand the experiences of indigenous students, COVID-19-affected individuals, those with HIV, and LGBTQIA+ community members. By identifying barriers and proposing evidence-based strategies, he works towards equitable healthcare systems and enhanced well-being.

Aron actively collaborates in academia, sharing expertise at conferences and scholarly forums, driven by a commitment to advancing knowledge and advocating for social change.

Dr. Qiuping Pan is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Asia Institute, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. Her research interests focus on the implications of transnational mobility on self-formation, entrepreneurship, and community self-organization at the grassroots level.