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Ally Zlatar is the founder of The Starving Artist which is an artist initiative that helps broaden perspectives on Eating Disorders and Mental Illness through the artistic voice. Her "This Body of Mine" campaign explores the female migrant experiences from displaced backgrounds and has helped support over 50 international female artists from refugee seeking backgrounds. Ally Zlatar has recieved the highest accolade a young person can achieve for their humanitarian work; The Princess Diana Legacy Award (2021) and also special recognition from The British Citizen Award (2022).

She holds a BFA in Visual Art & Art History from Queen's University & an MLitt Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her Doctorate of Creative Arts is with the University of Southern Queensland focusing on embodied experiences of eating disorders in contemporary art. Zlatar is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (Anderson College, GIC), KICL London, and University of Essex (UEIC).

Laura coordinates Knowledge Management and Communications for the joint EU-ICMPD MIgration EU eXpertise Initiative (MIEUX+). A Spanish national, she was brought up between Spain, Italy and Canada and studied Sociology in Madrid, Spain where she became interested in migration and pursued this field further through an MA in Communities and Social Change from City University London, United Kingdom. Although she started her career as a researcher, she quickly realised that the fast-paced nature of communications suited her more and applied this interest to working in different areas, including market research, advocacy and citizen engagement.

Ali Zoubeidi holds a Ph.D. in Security Studies from Hassan I University, and an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from Mohammed V University. He is a research fellow at the Settat University Security Dynamics Research Center. Dr. Zoubeidi is a senior consultant for social policies and interventions in smuggling of migrants, human trafficking, border security, transnational organized crime, security reforms, and human rights at the national and international level.

Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Gloria Zuccarelli is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy), researching on intergenerational justice and generational sovereignty in ageing societies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Studies at the University of Milan in June 2022, on “Asylum-seeking and Refugee Women: A Normative Framework”. Her research interests mainly focus on refugeehood, intersectionality, and gender perspectives on forced migration. She currently works on vulnerability and injustice in forced displacement and on permissibility of migrant smuggling.

I am a sociologist from Argentina, and currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UC3M. I am the PI of GLAM - Global South Migration and Comparative Integration: A Study of South American Migrants (EU Horizon # 101023322). I have a PhD in Political and Social Sciences (European University Institute, 2015). My research interests include: social inequality & stratification; ethnicity & migration; spatial segregation, neighboruhood effects and residential mobility; and quantitative methods.

Johanna O. Zulueta is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Global Diversity Studies, Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University. She received her Ph.D. (Sociology) from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. Her research interests focus on migrations in East Asia, particularly on issues related to ethnicities, gender and families, citizenship, return and home, and ageing. For more than a decade, she has looked into migrations and military basing in Okinawa. Currently, she is examining perceptions on ageing and the end-of-life, as well as social well-being among older migrants in Japan and Malaysia. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, she also edited books about migrations between Japan and the Philippines. She is author of Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Okinawan Women’s Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei (Routledge, 2022).

Since 2019 Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 2009 to 2018 worked at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb. Received a BA degree in Sociology and History science at the University of Zagreb, MA degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University, and defended PhD thesis in Sociology ("Impact of Environmental Changes on Generating of In/voluntary Migration), at the University of Zagreb. Published within interdisciplinary fields of forced migration, refugee, ethnicity and environmental studies. Research focus on various structural causes and drivers of migration, and post-migration processes, with a special interest on the Central and South-East European region.