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Monika Banaś, is an associate professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow/Poland. Her research interests focus on migration and integration, migration trends in contemporary societies, welfare state, mutual dependences of economy and culture. She holds a PhD degree in American Studies and a post-doctoral degree (doctor habilitus) in political science with a specialization on social cohesion and integration of multiethnic societies. Selected publications include: Women in politics. The public sphere [Kobiety w polityce. Sfera publiczna, published in Polish] ed. M. Banaś, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków, 2020; Unaccompanied minors and youth of refugee background in the context of Swedish school reforms of 2018. Inclusive education for migrants’ integration, INTED 2020, Valencia, pp. 0638 – 0644; Uncertainty management strategies in the process of identity formation of Polish young adults, [in] Youth and the politics of the present: coping with complexity and ambivalence, eds. E. Colombo, P. Rebughini, London, Routledge 2019, pp. 113-125; Culture, Politics, Political Culture – Interconnections and Bridges [in:] Foreign Languages and Cultures in Theory and Practice, eds. E. Höhn, P. Poliak, Banska Bystrica 2016, pp. 65 - 84.

I received PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo, Norway in 2014. I completed MA from GSIS, Ajou University, South Korea and BA from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Currently, I am the Assistant Director and a Researcher at Social Science Baha (SSB) (www.soscbaha.org), a research organization based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I am also involved in the study of labour and migration through a research wing, Center for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM) (www.ceslam.org) at SSB. I have been serving as a teaching faculty at DIRD and CPDS Tribhuvan University Kathmandu Nepal where I have taught master’s degree courses. At Office of the Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Soccial Sciences, I also teach a PhD course, Research Methods in International Relations. Previously, I worked as a research fellow at the Nautilus Institute (Seoul Branch) and Democracy and Social Movements Institute (DaSMI), Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea. My research interest include: public policies, democracy, conflict and peace, labour and migration, state-society relations, governance and institutions, development and co-operation, disaster, gender and social inclusion (GESI), and evidence-based research. I have provided technical support to various government agencies and stakeholders on the issues of labour and migration.

Educator, researcher, activist. She holds a BA degree in Pedagogy and MA degrees in Communication and Aesthetics. She is a PhD Candidate in Education Science. She is currently an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. She worked in the social and educational field in various marginal contexts in Hungary, Italy and Spain and realised or collaborated in research projects on gender, education, migration and housing policies in Hungary, Italy, Spain and Portugal. She was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in the Integrim Initial Training Network. Her main interest lies in collaborative interventions in the field of education and research in contexts of urban conflicts, especially from the perspective of children, young people and women.

Phd in Sociology, Associate Professor in Economic and Spatial Sociology at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy), where he lectures on Immigration Policy and Sociology of Space. His research interests include the territorial dimension of welfare policy (including immigration policy), and of migrants' settlement and incorporation.

Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso is Associate Professor of Demography at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan-Bicocca (Milano) Italy. She obtained her PhD in Statistics from the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2009 with a thesis on demographic projections. Her research interests: international migration, poverty, family migration, family reunification, demographic projections, return and onward migration, migrant working trajectories, migrant health, citizenship acquisition.

Associate Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (U.C.M.), with teaching in the degree of Social Anthropology in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the (U.C. M.). Doctor Cum Laude and International Mention in Feminist and Gender Studies, by the Institute of Feminist Research of the Complutense University of Madrid. His research interests are Gender, Postcolonialism and Migrations, African Women and Care Practices, Traditional Systems of Economic Cooperation and Local Development. Professor in charge of the virtual teaching of Introduction to Social Anthropology at the Universidad de Mayores (Senior University UCM), and lecturer in the Master on Islam in Contemporary Societies at the UCM. He is the author of several publications, monographs, reports and articles on these subjects and participates as a Researcher / Collaborator in research projects at the same University.

Associate Professor at the University of Leeds UK. Originally from Romania, Erasmus alumni and a 'migrant' in five European countries, my work seeks to bring new understandings of migrant rights, citizenship and integration, newly arrived migrant and refugee communities, diverse cities and global inequalities, borders and nations. PhD in Social and Political Studies, European University Institute (2013). Most recent projects: Feeding the nation: Seasonal migrants workers and food security (have a look! https://feedingthenation.leeds.ac.uk/ ) and Northern exposure: race, nation and dissatisfaction in 'ordinary' cities (have a look! https://northernexposure.leeds.ac.uk/) . Languages: Romanian, Spanish, Italian, English, passive knowledge German and French. Mother of second generation. She/her.

Ahmad Walid Barlas is from Afghanistan. He received his master's degree in economic and management from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Currently, he is employed as a lecturer and head of BBA department at Samangan Higher Education Institute, Afghanistan. His research interest area is migration, remittances and economic development. Mr. Barlas has conducted a number of research projects on migration studies.