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I am currently working at the University of Southampton on the ESRC Centre for Population Change/Connecting Generations project “Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities” exploring intergenerational relationships using the Mass Observation Archive records. Previously, I have taught research methods and developed the curriculum at the Department of Gerontology and the Centre for Research on Ageing where I am currently based as Teaching Fellow. I first joined the University of Southampton in 2019 as Research Fellow on the project ‘Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK’.

Before that, I taught within the Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, and the University of St Andrews where I obtained a PhD in Social Anthropology in 2019 with the thesis ‘Building Belize City: Autonomy, Skill and Mobility amongst Belizean and Central American construction workers.’ I obtained an MA in Anthropological Research from The University of Manchester and a BA in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Bologna.

Isabella Trombetta is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS). Previously postdoctoral associate at the BU Center on Forced Displacement (2023).

Dr. Trombetta's book project focuses on migration in the Central Mediterranean and how international maritime law and humanitarian law affect border shaping in the high seas. She also worked on projects relating the EU response to border pressures, the categories of migration, and on the criminalization of NGOs.

Between 2017 and 2020 she worked with the SAR NGO SOS MEDITERRANEE, first as communications officer on board the ship Aquarius, and then as communications manager.

In 2018 she joined the IMISCOE PhD network in the Networking group, served as IMISCOE PhD representative for two terms.

Doctoral candidate in sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany, with a Master of Arts in InterAmerican studies from the same university. Currently working on processes of categorization of mobile persons in Latin America, giving special attention to the recent flows of Venezuelans in the region. She has conducted field research in Colombia, collaborated with the Observatory of Venezuela at University del Rosario in Colombia, interned at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington D.C., and worked as a research assistant in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Ms. Trompetero also engages with civil society groups by supporting Venezuelan refugees in Germany. Other areas of interest include migration governance, forced migration, migration institutional frameworks, and transnational studies.

Ursula Trummer, Ph.D Sociology, MSc Organisational Development, Mag.rer.soc.oec. ‎Political Science, is Head of the Center for Health and Migration, Vienna/Austria. Her research focus is on the interfaces of Migration, Public Health and Health Promotion, ‎ and socio-economic determinants of health. A special focus of her work is on irregular migration and the management of paradoxical demands in migration governance. She has built up her expertise in developing and ‎conducting interdisciplinary projects on migration, health, and social inclusion over more than 20 years. ‎She lectures at different universities, works as independent expert to the European ‎Commission, and as consultant for IOM . She is active member of the European Public Health Association (https://eupha.org/) and the ‎Global Migration Health and Development Research Initiative (MHADRI https://mhadri.org/).‎ Ursula Trummer is project director of a Project on Good Migration Governance and Health (2020-2022) which aims at fostering the development of a community of migration and health experts in Africa.

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Roza Tsagarousianou is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at CAMRI (Communications and Media Research Insitute) University of Westminster and member of HomeLands, University of Westminster. Her research focuses on migration, diasporas and diasporic cultures, European Muslims, Muslim identities and mobilization, multiculturalism and cultural diversity. Her publications include Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (2013), Diasporic Cultures and Globalization (2007), Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities & Civic Networks (1998). She has co-edited the Wiley–Blackwell ‘Handbook on Diasporas, Media and Culture’ (2019), 'Diasporic Communications: Transnational & Local Cross-currents', Javnost/the Public (2002) and ‘Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Multiculturalism’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies (2012). She is currently finishing a monograph on The Securitization of Islam in Europe: Public Debate, Policy, Identity and Citizenship and working on data collected from fieldwork in the refugee camps of Moria and Kara Tepe in the island of Lesvos, Greece. She has co-founded and has been chair of the IAMCR Diasporas and Media Working Group and has been advising national and local government and authorities (BBC Trust, UK Local Government, Casey Review) and IGOs (International Organization for Migration, EBU) on issues of diversity and inclusion.

Haris (Charalampos) Tsavdaroglou is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University of Amesterdam, visiting Professor on Human Geography at the Hellenic Open University and Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Thessaly and at the University of the Aegean. Haris holds a PhD from the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

A Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he was awarded a PhD in Development Studies; a Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the UK/Horn of Africa-based PENHA; and a Non-Resident Fellow of the African Studies Centre Leiden. With an MA in Public Policy and Management from the University of Potsdam, Germany, his research has focused on the intersection of green economy and climate change, migration/forced internal displacement, conflict, pastoralism, social security, policy analysis, natural resource governance, risk and the dynamics of institutions in development. Tsegay has rich UN/EU/USAID consultancy experience in East Africa.

Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, and Dean of the School of Economics and Regional Studies, University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) (2018-). He lectures on human and minority rights, migration and refugee law. He has worked for the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the UN, the EU in human rights and democratisation field missions. Co-director of the Series of Studies of the Research Centre of Minority Groups at Vivliorama publishers (Athens). Author of a series of books, articles and studies on human rights, minorities, migration and refugee law. Special research interests: Minorities, immigrants and refugees in Greece/Europe and language rights, legal position of minorities/immigrants in Europe. Muslim communities in Greece, Christian communities in Turkey and Albania. Indicative works:
Old and New Islam in Greece. From traditional minorities to immigrant newcomers, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston, 2012
Αnnotated legal documents on Islam in Europe. Greece, Leiden/Boston, Brill 2016
“European Islams and Muslim Europes: Some thought about studying Europe’s contemporary Islam”, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, vol. 5, 2013, pp. 1-18
“Refugees in Greece: Facing a Multifaceted Labyrinth”, International Migration 57/2, 2019, 158-175, doi: 10.1111/imig.12473
«Muslims of Greece: A Legal Paradox and a Political Failure», Oberauer, Nobert, Yvonne Prief & Ulrike Qubaja (eds.), Legal pluralism in Muslim Context, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019, 63-82

Jason Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. His research areas include statelessness, citizenship, forced migration and integration.