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Jáfia Naftali Câmara earned her BA in English Literature, Criticism and Theory from the University of California in 2015 and a MA in English and Foreign Language Education from New York University in 2017. Jáfia is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol's School of Education, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on refugee and asylum-seeking students’ perspectives and experiences of education.

Stefano Camatarri is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he is also member of the research group in Transnational Relations, Democratization and Migration (TransDeM). Previously, he was JSPS Fellow at Waseda University (Japan) and FSR post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research interests regard the comparative study of political behaviour and attitudes, electoral competition, migrant political participation and engagement 'across borders'. His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as European Union Politics, Political Studies Review, the Swiss Political Science Review and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Prior to joining academia, I was a senior HRM professional having worked in Australia, Fiji islands and the Middle East. I have worked at three public universities in Australia (Southern Cross University; CQUniversity and Curtin University) and a private higher education provider (Australian Institute of Business) prior to joining Torrens University. I am a Fellow of AHRI and a member of the AHRI Advisory Research Panel. I am a foundational convenor of the ANZAM Mixed Methods Research SIG and a past Board member of the Mixed Methods Research International Association (MMIRA). Current research interests are focused on skilled migration, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the impact of 4IR technologies on sectors and professions, AI and Ethics, Algorithmic HRM, regional workforce development and complex adaptive systems.

Francesca Campomori is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (University of Venice Cà Foscari), where she teaches Social Policies and Introduction to Politics. She has a Phd in Political Science (University of Florence). From 2004 to 2010 she was research fellow at University of Bologna, Department of Political Science. In 2008 she has been visiting fellow at the University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy.

She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Mondi Migranti and Politiche Sociali/Social Policies. She is also in the board of ESPANET Italia and IMISCOE. Her main research interests are in the field of immigration policies, especially in a local perspective, social policies and social innovation. Currently, she is leading a three years INTERREG Central Europe Project called SIforREF Integrating Refugees in Society and Labour Market through Social Innovation.

Seda CAN TOPKAN received her PhD degree in Sociology from Hacettepe University in 2022. Her research focuses on the transnational political participation of Turkish-Belgian dual citizens living in Belgium.

Nergis Canefe is a Professor at the Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Canada and a graduate faculty member at Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Socio-Legal Studies, Humanities, Osgoode Hall Law School and Graduate Programme in
Public Policy and Law at the same institution. She received her PhD at York University, Programme in Social and Political Thought and her SJD (PhD in Law) at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. She is a Middle Eastern-Canadian scholar of applied political philosophy, comparative politics and international criminal law. Before joining York University, she was the inaugural post-doctoral fellow of the Past and Present Society, Oxford University, a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and the European Institute, London School of Economics. She also held teaching posts at Binghamton University, New York, USA, Bogazici and Bilgi University in Turkey, and Shanghai University, China. She was a Harley Harlett scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School and has held two consecutive fellowships at IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna, Austria (2021/2022). She is the current and immediate past Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), and the inaugural program co-director for the organization’s Arts and Forced Migration initiative. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Forced Migration, Northwestern University, USA, and Delhi School of Transnational Affairs (DSTA), Delhi University, India. She is the co-editor of journal Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Nations and Nationalism (1998-2006), Displaced Voices: Journal of Living Archives, and Mülkiye SBF Dergisi. She has been a frequent guest editor for the journal Refuge published by MCRG, Kolkata, India. She served as the Associate Director for the Center for Refugee Studies (2008-2013), and is an associate faculty member of both the CRS and Nathanson Center at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. She is also an adjunct faculty associate at the Center for the Study of Human Rights Law, Bilgi University Faculty of Law since 2009, and Center for Human Rights Law at Bilkent University Faculty of Law since 2022. She is a member of the Turkish chapter of IVR (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy). She is also the advisory board member of Lives in Dignity Grant Facility and the Western Minaret Organization.
Canefe is a practicing visual artist and mural painter with several exhibitions and installations in public spaces in Canada, Turkey and Cyprus. Since 2017, she has been experimenting with art/essay format in her academic publications. She has widely published on historical injustice, accountability regimes, politics of dispossession, mass displacement, excesses of nationalism, trauma and memory as well as ethics of witnessing and war crimes/crimes against humanity nexus. Her most recent research addresses the dispossession of unorthodox minorities in the Middle East, and, ethics of witnessing vis-à-vis work on human suffering.
Current Projects:
 Statelessness as a Permanent State (York University, Canada)
 Ethics of Witnessing and Redefining Collective Responsibility (IWM visiting fellow, Vienna, Austria)

Fields of Research:
• Global Politics of Dispossession
• Critical Forced Migration and Citizenship Studies
• Trauma, Memory, Atrocities of War and Societal Crimes
• Jurisprudential debates on International Criminal Law
• Nationalism and Mass Violence
• Theories of Justice and Debates on Collective Responsibility
• Politics and Ethics of Hope

A solid 47-year career, 25 of which in Higher Education institutions and 35 years in corporate environments. ESOL Professor and Consultant; ESP, EAP and PSP Expert Course Syllabus Designer and Coach; Volunteer activities in the same area and in migrant/refugee education and integration.