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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.

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”.

Laura Cleton is a postdoctoral researcher in return migration governance in Europe. At UNU-MERIT, she investigates the involvement of diaspora in capacity building and development through temporary return programs, facilitated by the International Organization for Migration. She investigates whether and how such programs enable the transfer of skills and knowledge to diaspora members’ countries of nationality. It not only questions what this process looks like and what (enduring) effects it has, but also challenges the underlying assumptions and discourses embedded in diaspora engagement for development.

Her dissertation entitled Deporting Children. Policy Framing, Legitimation and Intersectional Boundary Work (2022, Department of Political Science at University of Antwerp) relied on critical migration and border studies, intersectionality and interpretative policy analysis to question how the Dutch and Belgian authorities legitimize the deportation of undocumented migrant children. It argued that they do so through a conscious attempt to (re)frame the policy problem at hand, by deliberately drawing attention away from the underlying moral-political conflict and the hardships deportation poses for children. Instead, they on the one hand emphasized the diligence of their procedures and their compassionate way of working, while on the other also directing attention to the potential danger that children and their family pose to the citizenry. The dissertation complicates scholarly understanding of the workings of securitization and humanitarianism as means to legitimate migration control, and points to the crucial importance of intersectionality and interpretative policy analysis to deportation studies.

Prior to starting her postdoc and PhD, she worked as a junior lecturer in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (University of Amsterdam) and a junior researcher in Social Geography (Utrecht University). She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, steering board member for IMISCOE's Gender & Sexuality in Migration Research Standing Group, and acts as the secretary of the Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR). Her research interests include migration governance, migration policies & politics, voluntary and forced return migration, gendered & feminist approaches to migration studies, and family migration.

Dr Clelia Clini is a research associate on the project “Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination (MMPI): British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition”. She has extensive teaching and research experience in the field of Migration, Media, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies. Her research interests include: Migration and Diaspora Studies; forced displacement, arts and mental health; migration, transnational networks and experiences of belonging; narratives of identity and belonging in South Asian diasporic literature and films; immigrants’ experiences in Italy in relation to cinema, media and music.

Ahmet Ertan Çölgeçen is a Ph.D. candidate at Hacettepe University Institute of Turkish Studies. He has published on everyday forms of resistance, precarization, deinstitutionalization, irregular migration and informal work. He is currently working on his dissertation on the transnationalization of the Uyghur diaspora in Turkey and Germany.