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I am a social and political psychologist working through critical approches (anticolonial, CRT, liberation psychology among others). My research focus on collective action, identity, migration, discrimination by prioritizing a research praxis from below, through lay epistemologies of oppressed but resisting people and communities. I refused to be fully encapsulated in the neoliberal university system. Instead, through scientific affiliations, I try to conduct independent research with small academic grants. I also do translations to survive economically and to support my communities.

Adriana Costa Santos is Researcher member of CESIR (Université Saint-Louis, Brussels) and PhD student. Her research projects are in the areas of contemporary migrations, public action and collective mobilisation. She holds an Anthropology Master from Université Libre de Bruxelles (2019) with a research on Downward social mobility among Syrian refugees in Brussels, and has been founder and coordinator on the field of migration projects in Brussels with BxlRefugees since 2017.

Ms Cottone is currently Ph.D. candidate in international public law and international relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has a degree in Law and is specialised in the international protection of human rights and the law of the sea. In her academic research she adopts an integral approach to protect and guarantee individual rights focused on reinforcing interstate cooperation on security and governance of human mobility as a fundamental measure to combat transnational crime.

Since August 2021 she is Research Officer for the IOM's COMPASS Programme based at IOM Headquarters, Geneva and covering 14 countries (Afghanistan, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Tunisia and Sudan). Prior to this, she supported the International Migration Law Unit (IML) at IOM Headquarters, Geneva. In November 2018, she has joined the Libya mission of IOM as Research Officer, establishing and coordinating the Research and Policy Programme. With IOM she worked also in West Africa being based in Niger, working on preventing irregular migration and supporting awareness raising campaigns against radicalization and violent extremism. In the Horn of Africa in Djibouti, she managed IOM Mixed Migration program and the Yemeni crisis response. She is former Associate Expert for the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), with which she served in Algeria and at Headquarters in Turin and Rome, focusing on security, counter terrorism and transnational organized crime and human mobility. Cottone worked on refugee protection with UNHCR in Spain.

Out of the United Nations system, Linda served the Italian government through legal advisory and research on social policies for the integration of regular migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as victims of trafficking in persons.

Associate Professor (with Agregação) in the Portuguese and Romance Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, since 1986. Phd in Comparative Literature ( 1998) , and tenure in Romance Literatures and Cultures ( On Transitive Literature and Nomadic Subjects, 2010]. In recent years, her research has been dedicated mainly to questions of interculturality and to literary and other representations of migration and exile .

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with a joint PhD in sociology and demography. Before arriving at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin in 2016, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, a lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

I am an unapologetic, serial collaborator who is dedicated to interdisciplinary perspectives. Reflective of my rejection of any bright lines between disciplines in social science is a pursuit of peer-reviewed publication in sociology, demography, political science, criminology, public health, history and urban studies.

Martina Crescenti is a Ph.D student in Human Sciences, curriculum in Psycology, Communication and Social Sciences (Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata). Major interests in Sociology of Religion, Family and Intimate lives, Education. Bachelor's degree in Intercultural Studies (curriculum: turkish studies) (University of Florence). Master's degree in Languages and Cultures of Ancient and Modern Civilizations (curriculum: turkish studies) (University of Florence). 1year Master's degree in Sociology (University of La Sapienza Roma).