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Namita is a Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Social Work, University of Delhi. Her academic work focuses on placing refugee identity at the center of urbanism and integration in the city of New Delhi. She is studying the forced migration and urban sustainability nexus through a post-developmental lens. She specialises in qualitative research and programme evaluations and has led research studies and interventional projects in the areas of migration, gender and sustainable development.

Yingzi is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD project attempts to examine multi-generational care amongst rural migrant workers in southern China, which focuses on the family dynamics, gender relations and care practices in the context of rural-urban migration and how relevant social policies on hukou, healthcare and education influence this process. The research utilises qualitative methods, including semi-structured interview, ethnographic observation, participatory research approaches. Her PhD programme is jointly funded by the University of Sheffield and China Scholarship Council.
Prior to her PhD project, Yingzi studies Communication Studies at Peking University in Beijing, China. Yingzi's master's dissertation examines domestic workers' emotional labour and how domestic service companies use technology and professional trainings to professionalise domestic workers' emotional labour, which results in further exploitation and alienation.

Richa Shivakoti is the Research Lead on Migration Governance at Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research focus is on the governance of labour migration within Asia, particularly between the labour-sending states of South Asia and South East Asia and the labour receiving states in the Middle East. Her current research questions the sustainability of the circular temporary migration governance regimes in Asia. She is the Primary Investigator for a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and works with partners in Nepal and the Philippines to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on temporary migrant workers.

Richa has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore and a dual Masters in Public Affairs and Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. Previously, she was a research officer at Carleton University, a postdoctoral fellow at Maastricht University and the United Nations University in the Netherlands, and a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. Richa has taught in various capacities in universities in Canada, USA, Singapore and Nepal. She has also worked for and consulted with various international organizations such as the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, the ASEAN Secretariat, the Open Society Foundations and the International Rescue Committee.

My research and expertise concern political representation of migrants, citizenship and belongings, forced migrations, work exploitation and access to decent housing for migrants.
I have obtained a PhD in Political Sociology at the University of Padua, Italy. The focus of my research project was the political integration of migrants and refugees in Italy and the United Kingdom. During my PhD I held also a residential visiting positions at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2014-2015).
Here you can find my publications https://unipd.academia.edu/EriseldaShkopi

PhD Student at HCRI, University of Manchester

Oksana Shmulyar Gréen Oksana Shmulyar Gréen is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg with a broad international experience in education and research. She received her Bachelor Degree in Sociology at Kyiv State University in Ukraine. Her M.A. degree in Sociology has been awarded jointly by the Central European University in Prague and Lancaster University in Great Britain. She took her Ph.D. in Sociology in December 2009, at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg. Specialist fields Mobility within the EU, family and migration, migration decision making, transnational families and care, children and migration, children and agency, formal and informal social security provision, transnational belonging and identity, life-course perspective, welfare and gender policies, family practices, parenting and care, welfare in East and Central Europe, domestic work and global division of labour, societal development in and migration from Ukraine.

Laura's particular area of interest is refugee education through the lens of social learning and the concept of intersectionality. She works as a Lecturer in the Lifelong Learning Centre at Cardiff University, teaching modules on courses that provide access routes to degrees and on co-created community courses that she largely delivers with asylum seekers and refugees. Laura also works as a Research Manager in the third sector.

Laura Shobiye has a PhD awarded by Cardiff University, for which she explored the social learning experiences of mothers seeking sanctuary in Wales. Her research methods were ethnographic and participatory, involving qualitative interviews and arts-based creative methods and is informed by the concept of intersectionality.