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Hasret Saygı has recently earned her Ph.D in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Bogazici
University in Istanbul. Her expertise lies in sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. In her Ph.D thesis, she focused on everyday interaction between the refugee and local women sharing the same neighbourhood in Turkey. Her ethnographic study aimed to understand the dialogical processes through which the women construct and negotiate their identities and social relations. Hasret received her M.A degree in the Department of Applied Linguistics at King's College, London, and wrote her thesis about the workplace interaction between the Turkish immigrant workers and their customers in London. Apart from her academic interest in migration, she took part in a grassroots organization combating racism and nationalism in Turkey as a pro-refugee activist. She also did two-year voluntary teaching in a community center in Istanbul, and took an active role in After-School Project which aimed to help Syrian children register and integrate in the local schools and to provide them with the supplementary language and literacy education in their neighbourhood in Istanbul.

Dr Silvia Scarpa is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at John Cabot University of Rome (Italy). She passed the selection process held at the same institution and will be hired as Associate Professor of International Relations in 2021. Between 2013 and 2019 she also taught International Law at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. She has delivered lessons at the undergraduate, graduate and professional level at various institutions, including, inter alia: the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (Italy), the University La Sapienza of Rome, the American University of Rome, the Scuola Ufficiali Carabinieri of Rome, and the Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) of Vicenza (Italy). Dr Scarpa also worked as a consultant at the Italian Office against Racial Discrimination (UNAR) of the Department of Equal Opportunities, the Directorate General Justice and Consumers (JUST), the Directorate General Migration and Internal Affairs (HOME) and the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission, and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO). She holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Political Science with a specialization in International Law and Human Rights awarded by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (2006), a Master in International Protection of Human Rights awarded by the University La Sapienza of Rome (2002) and a Degree summa cum laude and special mention in Political Science – International Affairs awarded by the University LUISS Guido Carli of Rome (2000). Finally, Dr Scarpa is the author of the monograph entitled Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2008), of the manual An Introduction to International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement Authorities (UniversItalia, 2012), of the European Parliament’s Study on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (European Union, 2018) and of scholarly articles published in relevant journals and edited collections. For more information see: https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/silvia-scarpa and https://johncabot.academia.edu/SilviaScarpa.

I am a member of the interdisciplinary research group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration" at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, Germany, and a PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz, Germany. I am interested in sociological theories and practices of governing migration as well as in the study of the production of police knowledge on migration.

Tabea Scharrer is Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). She does research in Migration Studies, Urban Anthropology, and Social Anthropology. Her current projects deal with return migration of Somali forced migrants from Europe to East Africa as well as with Somalian migrants in Germany.

Norma Schemschat is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) where she works within the EU-funded twinning project BROAD-ER. She is member of the Amsterdam Research Centre on Migration and the program group Political Sociology at UvA. For her PhD, obtained with honors from ENS-PSL in Paris, she worked on refugee-centered revitalization of peripheral places. Her current research investigates the role of unions as strategic vessels to shape urban migration governance ‘from below.’ Her work appeared in journals like REMI and Sustainability, and in edited volumes published with Routledge and Edward Elgar. Before joining academia, she has worked for several foundations and NGOs in the fields of children’s rights and environmental protection.

Kerilyn is a Lecturing Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development and Senior Researcher at the International Migration Institute. Her research focuses on migration and immobility, rural transformation, urbanization, education, and gender in Africa.

Being a psychologist by training, I held research positions at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, and at the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration in Berlin. Currently, I am a senior researcher at the German Center for Integration and Migration research (DeZIM Institute) in Berlin. My research work centers around social and cultural aspects of acculturation of immigrants, refugees, and ethnic minorities (bicultural identities, value complexity, cross-group relations), with a recent focus on the family in the context of migration.