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Dr Olawale Lawal holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's premiere University. He worked with the Royal Netherlands Embassy from 1997-2005 before joining the Department of History and International Studies, Lagos State University from 2005 to date He is a senior lecturer of the Department. Dr Lawal was a member of Lagos History Project established by the former Governor of Lagos Mr. Raji Babatunde Fashola from 2012-2015 and he was a member of the Lagos State research team to the National Archives, Kews Garden, London. Olawale is a member of the newly formed Lagos State Task Force against Human Trafficking by the Governor of Lagos State. He has published 23 articles in learned journals (including the Pariah State which Wikipedia has used majorly for its publication of the term) both local and international, Chapters in 3 books and 6 works completed and waiting for publication. He has attended a number of academic conferences, some of which are: the 30th Camden Conference on Refugees and Global Migration, Maine. USA, the 19th International Academic Conference, Florence, Italy, World Conference on Climate Change Paris, France, and many conferences locally. He is a member of the Refugee Council, London. Dr Olawale Lawal is the former Deputy Director of LASU Foundation Programme. He got the Research grant of the Tertiary Education Intervention Fund to embark on the Research 'Migration Industry in Nigeria". The research has since been concluded and published. He participated in the HOMSS Migration proposal to the European Commission which engaged 15 scholars from different parts of the world. Olawale Lawal is Associate Professor of Refugee and Migration Studies

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge is a Social Psychologist at the University of the West of England (UWE) who studies migration. She chairs the UWE Global Migration Network and convenes the annual Asylum Seeker and Refugee Wellbeing Conference at UWE. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked in International Development, and has conducted research in more than 25 countries. She has lived in Canada, Kenya, France, UK and Bangladesh.

I'm a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. My PhD research focuses on PRC-born migrants' senses of belonging and civic engagement in Sydney. I have also been involved in research projects related to international student mobility in Hong Kong and the UK, and internal educational migration in China.

Yong Li is a sociologist, post-doctoral fellow at the Triangle Laboratory, ENS de Lyon, France. He is research coordinator in the International Advanced Laboratory “Post-Western Sociology in Europe and in China” ENS Lyon/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration. His research interests include student mobility, career paths of skilled migrants, experiences of discrimination and racism of people of Asian origin in France, migrant entrepreneurship, social ramification of the food safety scandals in mainland China.

I am a Research Fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland, focusing on ethnicity and digital media. With a background in area and cultural studies, I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki in 2022. My PhD dissertation examined the meanings of Sweden-Finnishness in social media campaigns and activism. My current research project examines the use of digital platforms by Finnish expatriates/diaspora and their influence on identity, belonging, and nationhood.