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Dženeta Karabegović is based in the Division of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Salzburg. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick (2017) where she worked on an ERC funded project, Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.

Her wider research interests and academic publications are rooted in international relations and political sociology with a particular focus on transnationalism, diaspora, migration, human rights, transitional justice, foreign policy, and the Balkans. She has done consulting work with local and international organizations focused on diasporas and development, returnees, social inclusion, civil society, education, and countering extremism and has collaborated with the Post-Conflict Research Center for multiple years. She currently serves as the Program Co-Chair for the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA).

She was an Assistant Professor at International Burch University in Sarajevo, Lecturer at the Sarajevo School for Science and Technology, a Guest Researcher at Mid-Sweden University’s Forum for Gender Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Previously, she was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala University in Sweden.

She holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and completed her B.A. (Hons) at the University of Vermont in Political Science and German with a Holocaust Studies minor.

Her academic work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals and she has a co-edited volume (with Jasmin Hasić) on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign policy since independence with Palgrave (2019) and a co-edited volume (with Maria Koinova) on diasporas and transitional justice with Routledge (2020).

A researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. An Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Holds a PhD in Comparative Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. A co-editor of “The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics”, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030120917

Expertise in political sociology, socio-legal studies, migration and citizenship with strong skills in qualitative methods and experience in quantitative research. Holds PhD in the Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies Program and Graduate Certificate in Law and Society Studies at the University of Washington. Currently, a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Public Administration and Sociology.

Laavanya Kathiravelu is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research is at the intersections of international migration, race and ethnic studies and contemporary urban diversity, particularly in Asia and the Persian Gulf. Her first book was Migrant Dubai (Palgrave, 2016), which explored experiences of low wage migrant workers in the UAE. She has also published widely on issues of race, inequality and migration in Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She was also a Fung Fellow at Princeton University between 2015-16. In 2019, she was recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (SSHRF) and recognised as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in the area of academic leadership. Laavanya is board member of migrant welfare organisation, HOME as well as civil society group AWARE, whose aim is to advance gender equality. She comments regularly on public forums and through op-eds on issues of migration, race and diversity in Singapore. In 2022, she was a Fulbright Scholar based at the City University of New York (CUNY)

Caitlin Katsiaficas is a policy analyst in ICMPD’s Policy Unit, where her recent research focuses on international protection, talent attraction, and integration. Prior to joining ICMPD, she held positions at the Migration Policy Institute, World Bank, International Rescue Committee, and George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, in addition to internships with local and national refugee resettlement organisations in the United States. Caitlin holds an MA and BA in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where her studies focused on conflict, migration, and development.

Dr. Atinder Pal Kaur is working as Assistant Professor (Sociology) in the Dept. of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. She has completed her Ph.D. (2018) from the Department of Sociology, Panjab University Chandigarh. She has completed her M.A in sociology from the Department of Sociology, Panjab University Chandigarh. She Graduated with Sociology and Political Science Honours from the Department of Social Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She has already published papers in the field of Migration, Gender, and development. She has presented a paper on Migration and Gender Equality in the International Institute of Social Sciences 2017 in Hague, The Netherlands. She has done Project with UNFPA for six months, designation as Research Officer; she attended two workshops on Research Methodology, one with UN¬FPA. She also attended a Summer Program at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 2013, Mumbai. She published a paper entitled “International migration and Impact of remittances on left behind wives: a study of Doaba region of Punjab” (2019) in SI Rajan and Neetha N (eds) Migration, Gender and Care Economy. 103-122, Routledge London. And also “Migration and Cultural Challenges through a gender lens: Punjabi Transnationalism in Doaba Region (Punjab)” (2019). Research Monograph Series GRFDT. 5(4), 4-13. She is also a member of scientific Societies that include “Global research forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism” and Indian Society for agricultural development and Policy. Recently join IMESOC. Her research interest includes International and Internal Migration studies, Gender and Development, Cul¬tural and Transnational Diaspora studies, Social Change and Rural Society. Email: atinderbains@gmail.com.

Jana Keck is a research fellow and coordinator of the research area Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington DC (GHI). She studied English and American studies and linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. Before joining the GHI, she was working in the research project “Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914” which boasted a team of scholars in computational periodical studies from seven countries in Europe and the Americas to examine transcontinental news circulation in C19 newspapers. In her PhD-project “Text Mining America’s German-Language Newspapers, 1830-1914: Processing Germanness,” she investigates viral texts and genres in America’s C19 German-language press to study how sexist, racist, and nationalistic ideas spread across states and decades.

Rahime Özgün Kehya (PhD) is an academic at Kafkas University in the Department of Cinema and Television. Her research focuses on migration, gender, integration, cultural diversity and otherness in film and media studies. She conducted a research project at the Institute of Media Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany. She has worked for multinational companies and directed and co-produced several short films. She has received research and merit scholarships from DAAD in Germany and TUBITAK in Turkey.

Biography

Janroj Yilmaz Keles is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Middlesex University Law School and a Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics (LSE), researching peace and conflict, gender, political violence, ethnicity and nationalism, statelessness, migration, diasporas and international relations, social movements and media and political communication. He is also module leader of International Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Dissertation and co-lecture of the modules Politics of Globalisation, Post-Brexit Europe: Transformation and Challenges and Migration Theories and Approaches. He also contributed the following modules: Radicalization and Terrorism: Problems and Answers and Theories of International Relations.

Keles has extensive experience in international education. He studied in Turkey, Germany and United Kingdom. He received his PhD in Sociology and Communications from Brunel University. His PhD thesis, entitled "Media, Diaspora and Conflict: Nationalism and Identity amongst Kurdish and Turkish Migrants in Europe" is an interdisciplinary and comparative cross-national study based on a sociologically informed analysis of mass communication, national-ethnic identity, multiple belonging and inter-group relations/conflict within diasporic and/or transnational settings.

He is one of the Co-investigators for the GCRF Hub – Gender, Justice and Security led by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security in partnership with Middlesex University and other 17 institutions around the world (£15.2 million) (Middlesex University leads Migration & Displacement, £2.6 million, with Professor Eleonore Kofman, Professor Brad Blitz, Dr Janroj Keles and Dr Neelam Raina)

He has been awarded a research grant with Dr Neelam Raina for a study on Post-Conflict Craft Heritage of Iraq and Kurdistan – A scoping study of Samawah and Erbil, funded by Nahren Project, Art and Humanities Research Council and GCFR (£30.000). His fourteen years of experience in researching within higher education has comprised different roles in multiple research projects across disciplines ranging from media and sociology to international relations. Consequently, he has an interdisciplinary and cross-national comparative research background. He has a proven track record of securing external research funding, having contributed as a Research Fellow or co-investigator to projects funded by the ESRC (£360,000), the Horizon 2020 - EU Commission (319,456.00) the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Clark and Keles, £60,000), and the OECD ( Dodd and Keles, £5000). As a Principal Investigator, he received small grants from the International Organisation for Migration to undertake research on undocumented migrants in the UK (£5000) and from the Council of The British Institute for the Study of Iraq for my research project on “Transnational Mobility and Digital Social Networking (£8000). Moreover, he received a Newton Fund to research the role of transnational entrepreneurship in post-conflict developing economies (Kurdistan-Iraq, £3650).

Previously he worked as an Ethnographic Fieldworker, Compas, University of Oxford, a Lecturer, teaching sociology and media studies at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University and an Associate Lecturer at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck. He also worked at Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University where he worked on a number of cross-national and interdisciplinary research projects on migration, visual and work sociology, civic engagement and participation, forced labour, human trafficking, precarious work, labour movement and trade union, community, identity, ethnicity, racism and globalization.

While he was doing his PhD, he has been part of a research team to explore 'Legitimising the discourses of radicalisation: Political violence in the new media ecology' for the University of Warwick, worked for Harvard University in London on the political participation and religious integration of Muslims in Europe after 9/11 and participated in the MIGSYS research project (Professor Russell King) to examine the growing diversity of migrant types, nationalities, ethnicities, cultures, languages and motivations, especially in "super-diversity" within the urban settings such as London (see King at el 2008).

He has published several single-authored and co-authored articles in peer-reviewed high-quality journals including Journal of Political Geography, Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Sociological Review, Antipode, Urban Studies, Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication, Industrial Law Journal, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal. Work, Employment and Society.

My monograph Media, Conflict and Diaspora (I.B. Tauris, 2015), was well-received. In addition, his feature articles were published in University World News, Open Democracy, Foreign Policy, European Union Foreign Affairs Journal and Chartist

He has organized a number of policy-oriented workshops with various stakeholders (government, NGOs, INGOs, EU officials, policymakers, community and business organisations) in the UK, EU and the Middle East.

He supervises master's and doctoral students and acts as an external examiner for the program and PhD theses.

He was an editor of Work, Employment and Society, a leading international peer-reviewed journal of the British Sociological Association (2018-2022).

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