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My research is situated at the intersection of labour migration, the internationalisation of higher education, and development studies. In most of my works, I use the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu to understand the experiences and practices of migrants (individuals and groups). My doctoral project articulated and advanced the notion of the 'migrant habitus' from the experiences of educational migrants in Denmark and New Zealand.

Lola (Loloa Ibrahim) is the Executive Director of the Migrant, Immigrant & Refugee Rights Alliance (MIRR Alliance.) She has served for almost two decades in the nonprofit sector in various capacities including direct service, arts-based activism, community engagement, human rights, gender, and social justice philanthropy. She has taken an advocacy role on behalf of immigrants, youth, and refugee women both in her native Sudan with the Sudan-Reach Women’s Foundation, and while working with immigrant communities in the United States. Lola holds a B.A. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and an M.A. from Harvard University where she researched the ways in which migration and internal displacement impact urban centers and political cultures. She has a particular interest in the intersection of immigration and racial justice—as well as the complexities of diasporic and transcultural identities in a global era where migration has become a principal trend of the future. She believes that through narrative and policy shifts, we can bridge social divides and open up new pathways for understanding and solidarity. Lola lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Aida Ibričević is an independent migration scholar and research consultant based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, affiliated as a Global Fellow with the Migration Center at the Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway and as a Research Fellow with the Center for Diaspora Studies, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. She contributes to the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in Bonn, Germany project Trajectories of reintegration: The impacts of forced displacement, migration and return on social change as a Senior Research Associate and delivers consulting services for IOM’s Labor Migration Project and UNDP’s Diaspora for Development project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also provides review services for a number of peer-reviewed, international academic journals. Her recent research interests include: external voting, drivers of highly skilled emigration, return migration and reintegration, with a particular focus on how emotions relate to politics and the connections between citizenship, home, and belonging. Aida Ibričević has an Economics B.A. from Middlebury College, United States, and an Economics M.A. from Central European University (CEU), Hungary. Her doctoral degree is in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, which she completed with a dissertation entitled Searching for Home and Belonging: A Qualitative Study to Understand the “Emotional Citizenship" of Diaspora Returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

My research on the intersection of visual culture, design and cultural history during the Cold War has recently focused on the visual and material qualities of illustrated magazines and their role in negotiating (inter)national belongings amongst emigre populations. I am particularly interested in the ways that what I call 'conscious graphic design', the juxtaposition of image and text and their entanglement amongst cultural producers and participants can encourage aesthetic and political shifts that intervene in the sociopolitical sphere.

All of my studying and experiences encouraged me to learn more about the world we live in, particularly its population, demographic trends, societies, economies, technological change, cultures, religion and the environment.
I'm aware of all the problems social injustice, poverty, hunger, disease, non-existent or inadequate health care, problems of refugees, racism, the vulnerability of children and women who suffer violence and so on… , all of them really affects me. I truly believe that nobody can be immune to everything that happens, I really want to help, we can be faster, more efficient. I have experience, knowledge, (different areas and experience from different organizations) which I use in the best possible way with creativity and full respect for colleagues and organization. Easily adapt to every situation, there is no problem, challenge that can shock or surprise me. Good leader, always ready, exceptional communication with people, tolerance and flexibility, detecting problems before they occur, motivated to work and learn more than ever.

Manuel Insberg is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Anthropology. In his dissertation project, supervised by Prof. Sabine Strasser, he focuses on forms and consequences of violence in refugee reception and settlement. Based on ethnographic research in Norway, he explores causes and consequences of continuing precarity, dependence and exclusion which refugees experience regardless of their legal protection status.

Manuel Insberg studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Zürich, Maynooth and Vienna. He graduated from the international Masters programme “CREOLE - Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes“ and obtained his degree from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, in 2018.