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I am a doctoral researcher in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Broadly, I am interested in the politics of migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More specifically, I am interested in understanding how national governments across LAC manage different forms of migration (immigration, in-transit migration, forced migration, and return migration), what factors shape their management strategies, what explains variation across national governments in the region, and how such management strategies shape the lives of migrant communities. I address such questions by employing qualitative methods.

Ahlam Chemlali’s research examines the politics and practices of border violence and death as a key phenomenon in need of scrutiny in contemporary European migration politics. Chemlali explores how the externalization of European border control to North Africa produces the everyday violence of the border and how this shapes gendered experiences. Her research project offers a unique ethnographic perspective on how West African migrant women in transit navigate and negotiate the violent terrains that characterize the North African borderlands, with particular attention to Libya and Tunisia.

Ahlam has over 10 years of NGO experience and conducted over 70 field and fact-finding missions including designing and leading translational research studies with a special focus on human rights documentation, violence prevention, and development interventions in migrant and refugee populations across MENA-region and Sub-Saharan Africa.

I am a PhD researcher at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Institute of Sociology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. I am researching ethnoracial power dynamixs in postcolonial DR Coongo through the case of Sino-Congolese intimate relationships. My previous work focused on Chinese gay student migration in France.

Lin Chen is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Department of Political Science, at the research group of Leuven International and European Studies, and jointly in Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, at the research group of Interface Demography. She holds previous degrees as Master of Arts in Sociology at Columbia University, Masters of Arts in Economics in Boston University, and Master of Arts at Scoical Sciences in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Her doctoral research topic is research project focuses on the South-to-South student mobility from Africa to China, which aims to investigate “How Do Migration Networks Facilitate African Student Mobility and Integration In China? - A Social Network Perspective on South-to-South Migration”.

I am a sociologist and political scientist with the research interest in social and, speicfically, academic inequalities, European integration and emigration studies. In addition to my scientific work I am supporting Scholars at Risk at the Europa-University Flensburg and volunteer.

Dr Herbary Cheung (he/dia/เขา/佢) is a Lecturer in Gender Studies and Work Integrated Learning/Internship Coordinator at the Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS), Monash University. Trained as a feminist sociologist and Southeast Asianist, he believes “knowledge is co-produced in ethnographic research”. His research engages with gender and migration, family, marriage and health, intersectionality, and contextual mobility, focusing on Southeast Asia-Hong Kong connections.

Phd, she is a researcher on the issues of socio-educational inclusion processes of minorities from a gender perspective. She is currently a research fellow at the FORLILPSI Department of the University of Florence.