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Ph.D candidate in Sociology, Umeå University.

Doctora en Economía. MBA y Magister en Gerencia de Proyectos de Ingeniería. Economista
Adicionalmente, capacitada en cursos del BCR; la Universita de Trento -Italia. Ha desarrollado proyectos e investigaciones económicas en diversas empresas del medio. Actualmente Directora de la Carrera Profesional de Economía.
Experiencia profesional en el desarrollo de proyectos internacionales y nacionales de alto impacto en el desarrollo del país. Colaboradora Externa de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones.
Especialidades: mercado laboral, movilidad laboral, y actualmente trabajando el tema de Migraciones Internacionales y Remesas. Tercera Misión.

Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.

Professor of migration history

Alessandra Venturini is full professor at the University of Turin, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Migration Studies www.europeanmigrationstudiesjmc.unito.it and president of the Diploma in Migration Studies at the University of Turin and Associate and former Deputy director of the Migration Policy Center at the EUI, Florence, co-chair of the G20 Migration section, board member of the Collegio Caro Alberto, IZA Fellow. She extensively worked on the economic approach to migration: the migration choice, the effects in the destination and sending countries in particular in the Mediterranean one. She worked on the effectiveness of migration and integration policies. Recently her research focus also on Migrants consumption of cultural goods as driver on integration. She visited many Universities and research center and is expert for the EU Commission.

Dr. Marcia Vera Espinoza is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University. She is also a researcher in CAMINAR (Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas). Her research and teaching seat at the intersection of development, political and social geography, with a focus on migration, forced displacement, and Latin America. Marcia is particularly interested in the study of migration and refugee dynamics, experiences, and governance in Latin America.

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department at Aarhus University and in the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Social Research Institute at UCL, London. My current fellowship has received funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark and the Marie Curie EC Horizon Programme (currently UKRI funded). I completed my PhD at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. My PhD ‘Coming of Age in Asylum’ is an ethnographic account of the young refugees who arrived in Denmark as unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors with a focus on those who were at the margins of the category, that is they were close to coming of age or their age was challenged. The thesis is concerned on how this group of young refugees created a sense of belonging through social relations amidst the uncertainties they faced during the ’refugee crisis’ of 2015-16. My current postdoctoral project explores how refugee mothers who endured separation from their families negotiate deservingness to the right to a family life following family reunification, by exploring their encounters with advocates and welfare workers in the context of the UK and Denmark. Andrea has taught in Australia (UNSW) and Denmark (University of Copenhagen) and presented her work at conferences in Italy, Iceland, Australia and the UK. Her work has been published in high-impact journals including Ethnos, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Journal of Sociology.

Cecilia Vergnano obtained her Ph.D. in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona in December 2015 with a thesis on housing access of transnational European migrants, ethnically labelled as Roma, in the city of Turin (Italy). She is currently affiliated to GRECS (Group
of Research into Social Exclusion and Control) at the University of Barcelona. Her
research interests are territorial stigmatization, forced (im)mobilities, housing policies and
processes of racialization.

Pinelopi Vergou is a political scientist (Panteion University, Greece). She holds an MA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Athens. Her doctoral studies is in human geography from the University of Thessaly - Department of Planning and Regional Development (April 2016). She has been working as a director in the Department of immigration services in the Prefecture of Athens, Greece and she has been collaborated with UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Athens-Greece in a Training Course on the diffusion of the Refugee Low (2001). She is currently working as a Laboratory Teaching Staff in the Department of Economics in the University of Thessaly. Over the last years she has participated in many EU and Greek funded research projects related to immigration and social integration. She is frequently collaborating with the National Centre of Social Research in Greece. Her research interests are focused on social and spatial segregation, immigration policy, social reproduction, gender and diversity.