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PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California. His lines of research are youth, public space, digital cultures, and citizenship.

Belén Fernández Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of A Coruña, Spain. She is member of the Research Team in Sociology of International Migrations (ESOMI). Her main lines of research are migration policies, local integration policies, and comparative policies of immigration. She did research stays at the University of California-San Diego, University of Lisbon, University of Sheffield (UK), University of Poitiers (France) and University of California-Berkeley.

Focus in my research on the transnational role of the diaspora for the development of small towns in Kyrgyzstan. Political participation of diaspora. I use visual language to indicate the common language of groups, group culture in social movements. Visual art for understanding social processes and decolonization of discourse.
I also have extensive experience outside academia, having worked on various consulting and research projects in the field of development, art and culture, policy development and implementation.
I use comparative methods (QCA) and want to do something with diaspora and memory about the civil war in Lebanon, compare Kyrgyz and Lebanese diaspora and its impact on home countries.

Professor at FLACSO-Argentina and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (IICSAL-FLACSO/CONICET). He is the director of the Diploma Superior en Migraciones, Movilidades e Interculturalidad en América Latina (Higher Diploma on Migrations, Mobilities and Interculturality in Latin America). His research interests are Intercultural relations, Jewish diaspora, Jewish-Korean Argentine relationship and academic mobilities in the context of the internationalization of higher education.

Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen (Germany). He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and is a research affiliate of the ERC-funded MIGRADEMO project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are political participation and inclusion of migrants with a focus on political parties, elections and civil society organisations. In his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas studied the political transnational activities of Latin American emigrants and political parties in Spain. Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative methods commonly used in political sociology.

Currently a researcher at ENTPE (University of Lyon) and associate researcher at PACTE (University of Grenoble), I hold a PhD in Sociology from Sciences-Po (Paris) that I completed in 2014 on intra-European migration. After my PhD, I have continued to research mobility and especially the links and interactions between different forms of mobility and social stratification.

Tineke Fokkema is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), in the Families & Generations group, and endowed professor Ageing, Families and Migration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within IMISCOE, she is coordinator of the Standing Committee ‘Older Migrants’. She is an internationally regarded specialist on ageing, intergenerational solidarity, migration, and their intersection. In 2014-2018 she was involved in the ERC Research project ‘Families in Context’ led by Prof. dr P.A. Dykstra, focusing on the social implications of growing old in a migration context. Fokkema has extensive experience with analyzing large-scale cross-national surveys (e.g. SHARE, GGS, TIES) and has done fieldwork among older migrants in Italy and Morocco. Fokkema holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has published in leading academic journals (e.g. The Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, European Journal of Ageing, and Ageing and Society).

Post-doctoral researcher in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland. With extensive fieldwork experience in The Gambia, Chile, Morocco, Haiti, RD Congo, Turkey, Romania, and Spain, he does research in migration, transnationalism, (im)mobilities, humanitarianism, and informality. He has been the main editor of the journal Perifèria (2018–2021), and his work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Social Anthropology (2019), Mobilities (2019), Migration Letters (2021), and Social Inclusion (2021).