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María Jesús Blasco Mayor is an interpreter and translator who has been teaching interpreting since 1997 at Universitat Jaume I (Spain), both at BA and Master programmes. She has also been invited to lecture at Master programmes in other universities, both nationally and internationally. Her PhD research centered on the comprehension component of conference interpreter training from a cognitive standpoint. She has participated in several research projects on interpreting quality, legal translation and interpreting, and led an interpreting in asylum settings research project. She has published at leading journals, authored and edited volumes on her research interests which include cognitive processes in interpreting training, interpreting quality, medical and legal interpreting and interpreting in asylum settings in Spain, as well as the use of new technologies and corpora in interpreting education. She has organized and taught specialized courses for Administration of Justice officials, the Bar, and legal translator and interpreter associations and UNHCR in Spain. She is a member of the UNHCR (Spanish committee) expert group on interpreting for refugees and is currently working on the edition of an interdisciplinary volume on interpreting in the context of international protection. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AUnETI, where she works as an expert member in the regulation of the professional practice of legal interpreters and translators. She is a member of the research group ECPC at Universitat Jaume I, and is currently working as a researcher of the project RE-CRI Representaciones originales, traducidas e interpretadas de la(s) crisis de refugiados: triangulación metodológica desde el análisis del discurso basado en corpus/Original, translated and interpreted representations of the refugee crisis: methodological triangulation with corpus-based discourse analysis (PID2019-108866RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Dr Karen Block is Associate Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Program, Centre for Health Equity, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She is also the Academic Lead of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s research program, Migration and Social Cohesion and Academic Convenor of the associated Interdisciplinary PhD program in Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies..

My research deals with inequalities and processes of inclusion and exclusion in the labor market, with a focus on ethnic differences (differences according to migration background), sometimes in combination with gender and/or differences across socioeconomic groups. It is aimed at better understanding the prevalence and sources of such differences, focusing in particular on the role of attitudes or stereotypes, discrimination, human and social capital, and the cultural and institutional context (e.g. policies or culture at the workplace and/or country level). I have expertise regarding quantitative research methods and data (surveys/experiments/vignettes/meta-analysis/interviews), as well as qualitative research methods (interviews, qualitative content and document analysis).

Jenna Blower is a Ph.D. candidate at York University in the Department of Social Anthropology. Jenna has an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies from the Toronto Metropolitan University. Jenna currently works as a Migration Research Officer for the Migration Research Unit at the International Organization for Migration supporting the Word Migration Report series.

I am a researcher with extensive experience in the field of Political Science and MENA region at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). I hold a BA in Political Science and International Relations (University of Pavia), and a MA in Modern Middle East Studies (Leiden University). My research investigates the coexistence of migration and protest within the same space and time, with particular attention to the individual-level choice between these two types of behavior. I examine reasons, opportunities for mobilization of young Moroccans living in Rabat, Tangier and Nador. I am interested in the impact that local-context factors, can have on the decision to mobilize towards protest and/or migration, or none of them.