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Pereira is Research Professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (IUL), integrated at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). She is the executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory (OEm) Portugal, which carries out statistical research on the Portuguese in all countries. Among other activities, the OEm team is responsible for the Yearly Statistical Report on Portuguese Emigration produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for presentation to the Assembly of the Republic.
She participates in research-action, migration and humanitarian action projects, with international and national funding. One of the projects she coordinated focused on Nepalese immigration in agriculture.
She was the State Secretary for Integration and Migration, at the 22nd Constitutional Government. Together with her team, she coordinated the task force for the first humanitarian emergency hosting in the country of people from Afghanistan and later from Ukraine.
She has focused on linking research, teaching and public policies.

Alexandra Pereira, Postdoc Research Fellow in Integral Human Development (IHD) at CADOS, Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). PhD by ISEG - University of Lisbon with a thesis entitled "Transborder Himalaya - Processes of Transnationalism Among Nepalese Entrepreneurs and Workers in Lisbon" (2019) and MA in Clinical Psychology by Coimbra University (2004). Researches Nepalese Migration in Portugal (entrepreneurship, labour, networks, female migrants, new media usage, mobility), Nepalese Transnational Networks and Nepalese in Europe. Conducted FAMI Project "Migration and Labour Exploitation of Nepalese in Agriculture in Portugal" (2017-2019).

I am a Doctor in Social Sciences from the University of Valencia, Spain (2015-2019), Migration, Mobility and Social Change Research Line. My thesis was co-supervised by the University of Valencia (Spain) and El Colef (Tijuana, Mexico). I have a Master’s in Development Cooperation / Specialty Co-development and Migratory Movements (UV, 2011-2013). Graduated in Law (UNED, 2006), with training in the field of Social Integration of migrants (2007), I also have been Head of a Research Project at the Instituto de Estudios Ceutíes (2014-2015). Finally, I am member of the Editorial Committee of the Diarios del Terruño Magazine (2016-present, SEMMI - UAM - Cuajimalpa Unit, Mexico), of the Network of Students in International Migration (REMI), and Work Team of the Research Group on Migration and Development of the University of Valencia (InMIDE).

Experienced financial services, AML, Compliance professional hoping to bring the traditional financial services together with new and emerging financial technology services to expand opportunities, share ideas, network and shape the industry and to involve with different Govt./ Non. Govt. agencies to combat financial crime.

Esteban Perez Gnavi (MA in Sociology of European Societies, MA in International Education and Development) is a Research Associate, Part-Time Lecturer and PhD Candidate at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include migration and integration, higher education, social inequality and stratification, as well as methods of social research (qualitative and quantitative).

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Manchester, UK and has recently finished a three year postdoc position at the HOMInG Project, University of Trento. His research interests include home and home-making, conflict-induced displacement, migration and mobilities, and ageing. Recent publications include ‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’ (Migration Studies, 2021), ‘Remaking a place called home following displacement (in the Routledge Handbook of Place, 2020), Thinking home on the move (co-authored, 2020) and ‘Where the heart is and where it hurts’ (Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2019).