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Dr. Nazimuddin Siddique is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Jamia Millia Islamia, a prominent university in India. He comes from one of the most marginalised communities in India. He has a PhD in Sociology. He has worked on displacement, citizenship, migration and human rights. His writings appeared in various national and international platforms.

I have an interdisciplinary background in Studies of Societies, Cultures, and Religions, and in Political, Legal, and Economic Philosophy. After having worked on land grabbing in Ethiopia and on the moral right of states to exclude human beings from territory and membership, in my doctoral thesis I now focus on attitudes towards minority and majority acculturation in the context of school. I am particularly interested in issues concerning class, race, and gender.

Hans Siebers is an associate professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has a track record of doing research and publishing on discrimination against people with a migration background in the labour market and education. His focus is on disclosing the factors (nationalism, racism...) and mechanisms (boundary making, cultural capital control...) that produce this discrimination in relationship with diversity and inclusion.

Melissa Siegel is a Professor of Migration Studies and Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she manages several migration research projects, coordinates the Migration Studies Specialization as part of the Master’s Program in Public Policy and Human Development and formerly headed the Migration Management Diploma Program. She is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). She currently holds the Chair of the UNU Migration Network and is a Research Associate at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. She is also on the advisory board of the Migration Policy Center, EUI and was formerly on the board of the Hague Process on Refugees and Migration. She has done visiting research fellowships at Harvard University, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the University of Oxford. She has advised, worked on or headed projects for several governments and international organisations. She is also regularly involved in migration-related trainings/capacity building for governments and international organizations as well as teaching at the Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD level. She has also given advice at the United Nations and European Commission on migration issues. Her main research interests lie in the causes and consequences of migration with a strong emphasis on the linkages between migration and development.

I am a senior researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and a guest researcher and lecturer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. I am the chair of the IMISCOE Board of Directors and a member of the IMISCOE executive board. Together with Marco Martiniello, I co-coordinate the IMISCOE Standing Committee Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (DIVCULT). My research focuses on migration and culture in Austria and in international comparison.

Professor Nando Sigona is Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nando is a founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press), and lead editor for Global Migration and Social Change book series at Bristol University Press. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. His research interests include: the migration and citizenship nexus; undocumented migration; naturalisation, denaturalisation and statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; asylum and EU; Brexit and intra-European migration; and child and youth migration.
His work has appeared in a range of international academic journals, including Sociology, Social Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Citizenship Studies and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ (with Crawley, Duvell, Jones, and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014).

Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, BSS and MSS in International Relations (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), MA in Development Studies (University of Leeds, UK) and PhD in Sociology (Monash University, Australia) serve as an Associate Professor at the Daffodil International University (DIU). He also engages as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), a research centre that studies on refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless people, labour migrans and diaspora communities. He has published several books and articles with reputed international publishers. He had also been involved in a number of studies under the Migration out of Poverty RPC and Development Research Centre (DRC), University of Sussex, UK. Mr. Sikder was a recipient of the NTS-Asia Research Fellowship from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and has more than 15 years field based research, 8 years teaching and 5 years consultancy experience with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)-Bonn, Department for International Development (DFID)-UK, British Council, European Union Delegation (EUD), Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), International Labor Organization (ILO), International Organization for Migration (IOM), US Committee for Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Solidarity Center-Sri Lanka. He has also presented papers at national and international workshops, conferences and seminars in Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Spain, Qatar, South Africa, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Switzerland, the Philippines and the United States. Sikder’s research expertise includes the labour migration recruitment process and returnee reintegration; remittances, development, dependency and inequality; migration and TVET Skills for employment; irregular cross-border migration, human smuggling and trafficking; forced migration, displacement and Rohingay (Myanmar) refugees’ situations; climate change-induced displacement migration; and urban resettlement and livelihood.He is also an external reviewer for Migration and Development- Francis and Taylor, Asian Pacific Migration Journal- Sage, Journal of Borderland Studies- Francis and Taylor, a book reviewer for Palgrave McMillan, India and Advisory Editor of Migration Mirror, a quarterly Newsletter of RMMRU and a television personality who regularly participates on TV talk shows.