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Diana Rayes is a Nonresident Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy focusing on regional public health trends and refugee issues. She is a PhD candidate in International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, specializing in the impact of conflict and displacement on refugee and migrant health. She has previously worked with the World Health Organization, the Syrian American Medical Society, the Migration Policy Institute, and consulted on projects for the Lancet Commission on Syria, E.U. Delegation to Syria, the World Refugee Council, and the Federation of American Scientists. Ms. Rayes has published widely on humanitarian health trends in Syria in peer-reviewed journals including the British Medical Journal, PLOS Medicine, and the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, and is a steering committee member of the Syria Public Health Network. A recipient of the Fulbright Research Fellowship, Ms. Rayes holds a master’s in public mental health and a certificate in humanitarian assistance from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BS in psychology from Arizona State University.

Dr. Eveline Reisenauer is researcher at the Munich-based German Youth Institute (DJI). Previously, she was post-doc researcher in the RTG "Transnational Social Support" (TRANSSOS) at the University of Hildesheim, and research collaborator and assistant for research and teaching at the "Center for Migration, Citizenship and Development" (COMCAD) at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

Yvonne Riaño is an Associate Professor at the Geography Institute of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), and chairs the Swiss National Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU). She is also a Research Project Leader at the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research - The Migration-Mobility Nexus, and leads the 'Transnational Mobilities' Module. Yvonne Riaño obtained a PhD in Human Geography in 1996 from the University of Ottawa (Canada), and has since taught at Canadian, Austrian and Swiss universities. She specialises on Geographies of Inequality. Using a feminist perspective and participatory methodologies, her work contributes to understanding self-organisation in Latin American informal settlements; the role of geographical imaginations in international migration; love migration as search for gender equality; the critical places and moments shaping gender- and ethnic inequality in the labour-market, the role of migration policies in shaping unequal work opportunities, and the strategies of return migrants. Currently, she studies transnational migrant entrepreneurship in Colombia, Spain and Switzerland. Yvonne Riaño has being a Guest Editor for Globalisation, Societies and Education, Qualitative Research, and Géoregards. She has extensively published in international books and peer-reviewed journals including Environment and Planning A; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Journal of International Migration and Integration; Globalisation, Societies and Education; Diversities; Géoregards; Oxford Bibliographies, Population, Space and Place, and Qualitative Research.

My research focuses on migration histories and the experiential qualities of place, developing a landscape specific contribution within a broad field of literature encompassing belonging and isolation, conviviality and racism, transnational connections and the shaping of cultures of use of public open space. I firmly believe in producing research in collaboration with others and I am committed to working with the professional and voluntary sector in all my research projects.
Through a number of research projects, these themes have been developed within two more specific strands: 1) Inclusive Public Open Spaces and 2) Diverse nature connections.

Dan Rodríguez-García is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the INMIX-Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His areas of research are international migration, interethnic relations, identity, racism and discrimination, with a particular focus on ‘mixedness’ (intermarriage and multiracialism).

Postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated record of research success in Balkan Studies, South-East European Studies, Border Studies and Migration Studies. Currently postdoctoral fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. PhD thesis on Slavic and Albanian collective memory and contemporary identity discourses in Macedonia defended at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). Research conducted addresses the interface of visual culture, anthropology and memory studies, and focuses on South Slavic-Albanian borderlands.

Taras Romashchenko is a Ukrainian scholar with research interests in international economics, international labour migration and diaspora, FDI and remittances. PhD in Economics and Associate Professor at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy. He is also a senior lecturer in international economic relations and migration, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University (Germany) and has been a visiting research fellow at Danube University Krems (Austria).

Sanam Roohi is a Marie Curie COFUND fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, currently researching the transnationalisation of the Telangana movement. She defended her thesis ‘Giving Back: Diaspora Philanthropy and the Transnationalisation of Caste in Guntur (India)’ from the University of Amsterdam in December 2016. Her research outputs include publication of a few book chapters and articles in journals including Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, International Political Sociology and Ethnic and Migration Studies, apart from a co-produced film on diaspora philanthropy. She worked as an assistant professor at St. Joseph’s (Autonomous), Bangalore, between September 2016 and April 2018. Roohi was a 2018 SSRC InterAsia Fellow at the Global and Transregional Studies Platform, Georg-August University, Göttingen. She has also been awarded a Humboldt fellowship which starts in September 2020 at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.

Dr Lena Rose is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Law Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her research areas are migration and refugee studies, legal anthropology, religion, and globalisation.

Her current three-year interdisciplinary research project entitled 'Christianity on Trial: Asylum, Conversion, and the Modern Nation-State' (2019-2022) examines the negotiation of ‘Christianity’ through the lens of asylum adjudications of claimants based on the fear of religious persecution following a conversion to Christianity. In these cases, secular judges have to assess the genuineness of the conversion, and risks of practising Christianity in the country of origin of the applicants. This study of case law and ethnographic fieldwork at courts in Germany, France, and the UK explores the tensions between culture, religion, and power in the negotiation of what 'Christianity' is.

Lena completed her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology in May 2019, based at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. Her doctoral work was concerned with the role of power in the circulation of ideas, resources, people, and theology within global evangelicalism. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork among Palestinian and 'Western' evangelical Christians in Israel-Palestine, Europe and North America, while paying attention to the theologies that shape evangelicals' approaches to Israel. Her doctoral work has already resulted in a number of publications in journals such as Current Anthropology, Global Networks, and Ethnos.

Lena holds an MSc Migration Studies (University of Oxford, 2013) and has worked as research assistant on various projects at the International Migration Institute, the Refugee Studies Centre, and the Socio-Legal Studies Centre (in particular Prof Livia Holden's EURO-EXPERT project).

Since 2017, Lena is the co-founder and convener of the interdisciplinary Oxford Migration and Mobility Network (@MigMobNetwork), which draws together researchers of migration and mobility from across the University. It is hosted by the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity at COMPAS and combines the expertise of more than a hundred researchers from more than twenty different departments from across the University of Oxford.