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I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations at Istanbul University. I am currently a guest researcher in the Centre for Global Migration Studies at Göttingen University. My Ph.D. research based on "return migration, collective memory, and transnational social spaces". I have studied return migration, collective memory, and translocality. Previously, I graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Istanbul University. At the same time, I graduated Department of International Relations at Anadolu University. After undergraduate study, I got a Master’s degree from the Department of International Relations in the Institute of Social Science of the Eskisehir Osmangazi University. I completed my Master’s degree with the thesis entitled “Political Discourse on Syrian Refugees: Case of Turkey”.

Oana Ciobanu is Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland. Her research interests are in the area of older migrants, transnationalism and social networks.

Mălina Ciocea is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest (Romania). She is the coordinator of the CoDiPo (Communication, Discourse, Public Problems) Laboratory, Center for Research in Communication at SNSPA. She has been involved in research grants covering the topics of the Romanian diaspora in media and political discourse, public problems and media debates in the Romanian public sphere, identity and memory studies. She has published several chapters and articles on these topics, among which:
Diasporic media and counterpublics. Engaging anti-immigration stances in the UK. Journal of Language and Politics, 2020 (co-authored with I.D. Mădroane and A.I.Cârlan);
Discourse in Transnational Social Fields (special issue in Critical Discourse Studies, 2017, guest co-edited with C. Beciu, I.D. Mădroane and A.I.Cârlan);
Debating Migration as a Public Problem. National Publics and Transnational Social Fields. Peter Lang, 2018 (co-edited with C. Beciu, I.D. Mădroane and A.I.Cârlan).

I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. My PhD research investigates the changing regimes of belonging for Romanian migrants in London after Brexit and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using an ethnographic approach, I analyse Romanians’ transnational practices and trajectories. Starting from migrants’ experiences of work, my PhD aims to document the precarious, yet productive connections weaved by Romanians as they navigate the metropolitan economy.

In turn, I am interested in the manifestations of labour outside the confines of migrants’ workplaces. My research focuses on the intersections between class, gender, and ethnicity which give rise to new patterns of inequality between Romanians in London. By documenting these changes anthropologically, I hope to contribute to the theorisation and analysis of the contested status of Eastern European migrants in present-day Europe.

Prior to starting my PhD, I studied for my BA Anthropology and Sociology and my Masters in Research Methods at Durham University, UK. My Masters thesis entitled 'Hai cu maneaua, hai cu sarmaua’: Competing values of labour migration amongst Romanians in London serves as a pilot study for my ongoing doctoral research.

Silvia Cittadini is a post-doctoral researcher and consultant, specialised in the analysis of inclusion policies, anti-discrimination, minority protection and gender equality. She earned a PhD in Politics and Human Rights at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa in 2019, where she defended a thesis on the Right to Adequate Housing and the EU strategy for the inclusion of Roma in the housing sector. She served as a research fellow at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg and at the Centre for Gender and Politics at the University of Belgrade. She has also been a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University. Within her work, Silvia gained experience in conducting qualitative fieldwork research both in the Italian context and in the Western Balkans.

I am a PhD candidate at Sociology of Education and Culture (SEC) at Uppsala University, Sweden. My doctoral dissertation analyzes the educational dispositions of refugee families in Sweden by questioning the conversion of assets in transnational contexts and how it functions in the case of statelessness. My interests include ethnic studies, migration studies, and displacement as I attempt to bridge migration studies with the sociology of education using the case of Kurds who fled the Syrian war and reside in Sweden. Previously, I was awarded a masters’ degree analyzing the educational strategies of the same group in the Turkish context. I am a member of the working research group Education and Migration at Uppsala University, and a PhD representative of the standing committee “Education and Social Inequality” as a member of International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE), where I am organizing a panel on refugee education during the 18th annual conference.

Laura Cleton is a postdoctoral researcher in return migration governance in Europe. At UNU-MERIT, she investigates the involvement of diaspora in capacity building and development through temporary return programs, facilitated by the International Organization for Migration. She investigates whether and how such programs enable the transfer of skills and knowledge to diaspora members’ countries of nationality. It not only questions what this process looks like and what (enduring) effects it has, but also challenges the underlying assumptions and discourses embedded in diaspora engagement for development.

Her dissertation entitled Deporting Children. Policy Framing, Legitimation and Intersectional Boundary Work (2022, Department of Political Science at University of Antwerp) relied on critical migration and border studies, intersectionality and interpretative policy analysis to question how the Dutch and Belgian authorities legitimize the deportation of undocumented migrant children. It argued that they do so through a conscious attempt to (re)frame the policy problem at hand, by deliberately drawing attention away from the underlying moral-political conflict and the hardships deportation poses for children. Instead, they on the one hand emphasized the diligence of their procedures and their compassionate way of working, while on the other also directing attention to the potential danger that children and their family pose to the citizenry. The dissertation complicates scholarly understanding of the workings of securitization and humanitarianism as means to legitimate migration control, and points to the crucial importance of intersectionality and interpretative policy analysis to deportation studies.

Prior to starting her postdoc and PhD, she worked as a junior lecturer in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (University of Amsterdam) and a junior researcher in Social Geography (Utrecht University). She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, steering board member for IMISCOE's Gender & Sexuality in Migration Research Standing Group, and acts as the secretary of the Dutch Association for Migration Research (DAMR). Her research interests include migration governance, migration policies & politics, voluntary and forced return migration, gendered & feminist approaches to migration studies, and family migration.