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Focus in my research on the transnational role of the diaspora for the development of small towns in Kyrgyzstan. Political participation of diaspora. I use visual language to indicate the common language of groups, group culture in social movements. Visual art for understanding social processes and decolonization of discourse.
I also have extensive experience outside academia, having worked on various consulting and research projects in the field of development, art and culture, policy development and implementation.
I use comparative methods (QCA) and want to do something with diaspora and memory about the civil war in Lebanon, compare Kyrgyz and Lebanese diaspora and its impact on home countries.

At the Department of Political Science at University of Oslo, Dr. Victoria Finn researches migrant political participation, (non)citizenship, and migration governance, primarily in Latin America. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, a PhD in Humanities from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and an MA in International Affairs from the George Washington University, US. Prior, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy, and a 2021 Visiting Doctoral Fellow at Tallinn University, Estonia. She has served as an elected Co-Convener for the ECPR Standing Group on Migration and Ethnicity and elected Executive Council Officer for the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section. Contact: v.j.finn@stv.uio.no

Tara Fiorito works as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Her research broadly falls in the areas of critical migration studies, engaged scholarship, resilient youths, and social movement studies, with a particular focus on and expertise in undocumented immigrant youth, critical theory, community engaged research, and qualitative research methods.

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Science, Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen. My main research interests include ethnic and social inequalities as well as longitudinal analytical methods. I am currently the PI of the DFG-funded project "The role of older siblings in the educational attainment of children with and without migration background" https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/466348479?language=en. My work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnicities, Advances in Life Course Research and European Sociological Review.

Professor at FLACSO-Argentina and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (IICSAL-FLACSO/CONICET). He is the director of the Diploma Superior en Migraciones, Movilidades e Interculturalidad en América Latina (Higher Diploma on Migrations, Mobilities and Interculturality in Latin America). His research interests are Intercultural relations, Jewish diaspora, Jewish-Korean Argentine relationship and academic mobilities in the context of the internationalization of higher education.