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Agnieszka Trąbka, PhD, is a migration researcher with a background in sociology and psychology. Since 2014 she has been working in the Institute of Applied Psychology at Jagiellonian University. In 2018 she also joined the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw as a researcher in the project “CEEYouth: The comparative study of young migrants from Poland and Lithuania in the context of Brexit” and “MIMY: EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions” (Horizon 2020). Her research interests encompass migration and mobility studies, identity research, psychology of place and qualitative research methods. She is assistant editor of the journal “Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny” (Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora) and a member of the Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science.

Giorgia is post doctoral researcher at the LEST, University of Aix-Marseille, France. She holds a Phd in Economics and International Studies from the University of Aix-Marseille and University of Naples, L'Orientale. Her research focuses on third sector organisations dealing with reception for asylum seekers and refugees in urban areas, social movements and migration regime and multi-level governance of migration regime.

Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University where she is setting up a new programme of excellence in migration research focusing on Canada and the world. Anna has previously held a Robert Schuman Chair at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. Her research focuses on migration, cultural diversity, on both policy and identity issues with a strong interest in communication, gender and qualitative methods. More information on her work can be found at www.annatriandafyllidou.com

I am currently working at the University of Southampton on the ESRC Centre for Population Change/Connecting Generations project “Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities” exploring intergenerational relationships using the Mass Observation Archive records. Previously, I have taught research methods and developed the curriculum at the Department of Gerontology and the Centre for Research on Ageing where I am currently based as Teaching Fellow. I first joined the University of Southampton in 2019 as Research Fellow on the project ‘Transnational healthcare and wellbeing among Polish migrants in the UK’.

Before that, I taught within the Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, and the University of St Andrews where I obtained a PhD in Social Anthropology in 2019 with the thesis ‘Building Belize City: Autonomy, Skill and Mobility amongst Belizean and Central American construction workers.’ I obtained an MA in Anthropological Research from The University of Manchester and a BA in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Bologna.

Isabella Trombetta is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS). Previously postdoctoral associate at the BU Center on Forced Displacement (2023).

Dr. Trombetta's book project focuses on migration in the Central Mediterranean and how international maritime law and humanitarian law affect border shaping in the high seas. She also worked on projects relating the EU response to border pressures, the categories of migration, and on the criminalization of NGOs.

Between 2017 and 2020 she worked with the SAR NGO SOS MEDITERRANEE, first as communications officer on board the ship Aquarius, and then as communications manager.

In 2018 she joined the IMISCOE PhD network in the Networking group, served as IMISCOE PhD representative for two terms.

Doctoral candidate in sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany, with a Master of Arts in InterAmerican studies from the same university. Currently working on processes of categorization of mobile persons in Latin America, giving special attention to the recent flows of Venezuelans in the region. She has conducted field research in Colombia, collaborated with the Observatory of Venezuela at University del Rosario in Colombia, interned at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington D.C., and worked as a research assistant in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Ms. Trompetero also engages with civil society groups by supporting Venezuelan refugees in Germany. Other areas of interest include migration governance, forced migration, migration institutional frameworks, and transnational studies.