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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.

Tiziana Caponio, PhD in Political Science at the University Cesare Alfieri of Florence, is currently Marie Curie Research Fellow at MPC with the project ‘Migration Policy in Multilevel Political Settings. City Networks in Europe and North America (MInMUS)’. Her research focus on migration policy and policymaking, with a specific attention to the local dimension and multilevel governance dynamics. Since 2015 she is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society (CPS) of the University of Turin, where she teaches ‘Dynamics and policies of migration’. She is also Research Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto and at the Fourm of International and European Research on Immigration (FIERI). She is co-chair of the Standing Committee ‘Migration Politics and Governance' of the IMISCOE Research Network and has been involved in many international collaborative projects on migration and immigrant integration policies in Europe and beyond. In April-June 2017 she was Luigi Einaudi Chair at the Cornell Institute for European Studies (Cornell University). She has edited together with Peter Scholten and Ricard Zapata The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities. Among recent publications on this topic: (with Teresa Cappiali), Italian Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: The Policy Gap Reconsidered, South European Politics and Society, 23(1), pp. 115-132 .

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in material culture, transnationalism, kinship and migrant infrastructure. I gained my PhD in Anthropology at UCL and my thesis looked at parcel-sending in Moldovan transnational families as a shared practice of staying connected across borders. My current project explores transnational parcel-sending practices as a form of solidarity with Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.

Andrea Carlà (PhD in Politics, New School for Social Research, New York - Postgraduate studies in Diplomacy and International Relations, University of Bologna) is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights at EURAC Research (Bolzano, Italy). His research focuses on the interplay among minority protection, migration and security issues. He is the co-editor of “Migration in Autonomous Territories. The Case of South Tyrol and Catalonia” (2015) and authors of articles in academic publications such as Ethnopolitics and EYMI, as well as a frequent contributor to a local newspaper.

John Carlaw is a Senior Research Associate under the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada where he co-leads CERC’s Politics and Narratives of Migration Research Theme. His current projects include CONTESTATIONS of Migration and Belonging in Canada amidst COVID-19 and a book manuscript, Neoconservative Multiculturalism: The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Migration and Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial Canada. John has previously led CERC Migration’s graduate student mentorship program and annual research symposia (2020-2023) and taught at Trent and York Universities. From 2015 to 2019, John served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, where he also completed his doctorate. He has recieved funding for his research both during and since his doctoral studies from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Research focus/fields of interest include: immigration policy, citizenship, political parties, populism.