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I am a sociologist and associate professor at Nord University, in Norway, with expertise in migrant residential segregation and labor market outcomes. My research focuses on the factors shaping residential mobility, access to housing, and employment of migrants in their host societies. I mostly apply quantitative research methods to register and census data in my research.

Ph.D Researcher in Sociology at Georg-August University of Gottingen (Germany) and at Leiden University's African Studies Centre (the Netherlands). Currently a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Insitute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Interests in transnational migration in South Africa, Pentecostal Christianity, African urbanism, social relations and encounters, ambivalence

Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology, member of the Social Policy Research Centre and founding member of the FemGenSex research network at Middlesex University. Anastasia has engaged in multi-sited, multi-method and comparative ethnographic research in the United States, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Iceland and Switzerland.

Prior to her PhD studies, Fanny Christou graduated in Political Science, specialised in European Studies, with a 5-year diploma from Sciences Po, France. During the last year of her Political Science degree at Sciences Po, she also got a Master degree in Political Science with a major in Geopolitics and International Relations, from the University of Toulouse and Sciences Po Toulouse, in partnership with the Staffordshire British University, UK. After this, she obtained an additional Master degree in European and International Studies with a specialisation on International Cultural Strategies, (University of Albi, 2013-2014).

She got her doctoral degree (PhD in Geography), with a thesis entitled “The political mobilisation’s territorialisation of Palestinian diaspora in Sweden”, in December 2017 in France (co-supervision between the University of Poitiers, Migrinter, the American University of Beirut and Sciences Po Paris) financially supported by different prestigious institutions (Foundation Poitiers University, Foundation of France, the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence and CMES).

She has been awarded a one-year post-doctoral fellowship funded by the French Red Cross Foundation in October 2018 with a research project entitled: “Socio-cultural practices of the Palestinians in Germany in the field of social and solidarity economy: towards a new model of integration?”.

Fanny Christou is currently based at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), as a post-doctoral researcher for the “Resilience in Urban Sudan” project granted by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), and co-funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS).

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations at Istanbul University. I am currently a guest researcher in the Centre for Global Migration Studies at Göttingen University. My Ph.D. research based on "return migration, collective memory, and transnational social spaces". I have studied return migration, collective memory, and translocality. Previously, I graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Istanbul University. At the same time, I graduated Department of International Relations at Anadolu University. After undergraduate study, I got a Master’s degree from the Department of International Relations in the Institute of Social Science of the Eskisehir Osmangazi University. I completed my Master’s degree with the thesis entitled “Political Discourse on Syrian Refugees: Case of Turkey”.