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Sanja Bökle is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the research project “Civil Society Organizations and the Challenges of Migration: Agents of Change (ZOMiDi)”. Sanja studied international development studies at the University of Vienna and the Universidad de la República Uruguay, and worked as a Student Assistant at the Department for Development Cooperation and Development Politics at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Drawing from post-colonial, queer and feminist theories, Sanja’s master thesis asked how gender, sexuality, desire, and race are normed, negotiated, limited, and included in international voluntary work, and was published in the Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag and Nomos-Verlag. Sanja worked for many years as a social justice and diversity trainer, and founded an NGO for political education.

Susanne Boersma is a PhD fellow in the POEM EU H2020 research project, for which she is based at Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SPK) and the University of Hamburg. She looks at the role of museums in the conversation about migration and their efforts to let ‘refugees speak from themselves’. Building on her background in cultural studies, languages and arts, she has taken an interest in the potential role of cultural institutions in narrative and integration processes in Europe.

Colleen Boland is postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she works on the EU Horizon2020 funded ITFLOWS project investigating management of migration flows to the EU and co-coordinates the project’s Gender Committee. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research interests relate to the intersection of gender and diversity, asylum rights and management, and the construction of citizenship and belonging with reference to minority populations in European societies. She is currently a 2021-2022 re:constitution Fellow, a Stiftung Mercator funded Forum Transregionale Studien and Democracy Reporting International program.

Dr. Bonfanti is a social anthropologist, specialized in gender studies, with expertise on South Asian diasporas. From a background in cultural studies, she gained a PhD in Anthropology of Migrations for her multi-sited ethnography conducted between Italy and India in 2012-15, where she analyzed generational change among Punjabi transnational families. Keen on participatory methods, her research interests include kinship, religious pluralism and media cultures, approached through intersectionality and life stories. Former visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (DE), since 2017 she has collaborated within the comparative ERC HOMInG Project based at University of Trento (IT), exploring the home-migration nexus across European cities with a multiscale lens and mixed qualitative methods. Dr. Bonfanti has published widely in Italian and English, and recently co-authored “Shifting Roofs: Ethnographies of Home and Mobility”, Routledge 2020. Currently, while co-editing a collection of migrants’ life stories for Berghahn Books, she is also engaged in filmmaking, co-directing an ethnographic movie on minority houses of worship in times of pandemic.

Gladys F. Bongapat is a recipient of the MEXT Scholarship for a Ph.D. program at the Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University. Her research focuses on irregular Filipino migrants in Japan. She also took her master’s degree at the same department with a major in Inclusive Society and State, and with minors in Poverty and Social Policy and Peace and Governance. For her master’s degree, she was a recipient of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Scholarship Foundation and a beneficiary of the Kamenori Foundation.

Saskia Bonjour is senior lecturer in political science. She teaches mostly in the field of gender & politics and intersectionality. Her research focuses on the politics of migration and citizenship in the Netherlands and in Europe. She is especially interested in family migration, civic integration, gender and migration, and Europeanisation.

Through her study of the politics and policies of migration and citizenship, Saskia Bonjour explores how political actors define identities and communities, that is how they distinguish between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Her research is about how these actors define criteria of membership as well as the rights and resources which flow from different degrees of membership and deservingness, and thus what it means to belong. A crucial line of inquiry in her work is the relation between the politics of intimacy and the politics of belonging, i.e. the way in which gender and family norms shape the politics of migration and citizenship.Other aspects of migration politics that she has published about include the impact of law and courts, Europeanisation, party politics, and the impact of news media on policymaking. Saskia Bonjour's research approach is comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing not only from political science but also from history, law, and sociology.

Richard is the founder and President of OMANIAE Global Network Organization. As an Architect, He has participated in several research and projects on migration, Irregular Migration, asylum and refugee programs. He is responsible for providing leadership, direction and the coordinating of major activities in accordance with the goals and objectives of the Organization.
His role is to direct strategy and create sustainability in order to grow the activities of the Organization to meet its aims and objectives. He is also responsible for programme development, key partnerships, Government and public relations and the overall day to day management of OMANIAE Global Networks.
Through his qualitative and quantitative research on issues relating to irregular migration, failing identities and border crossing, His research fields include Asylum & Refugees, Migration Studies (African migration, Asia migration, transnational perspective and gender, new Mobilities, asylum and gender) and Development Studies. He has conducted fieldwork in Belgium, Senegal, Ghana, Guinea, Organizational capacities of regional infrastructures and migrant’s empowerment, socio-economic, Humanity as well as environmental dynamics of internal displaced undocumented migrants. Richard holds a Bachelor of Education, Arts (English, Religion and Human Values) from University of Cape Coast, Ghana.