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I am interested in migration and development issues especially migrant workers and refugee issues. my current research about unprocedural migrant workers in Indonesia: pattern and causes.

Cigdem Manap is a Visiting Scholar at Brandenburg University of Technology. Before, she was an assistant professor at Department of Sociology, Suleyman Demirel University and Research Fellow at Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Her research and publications focus on international migration, refugees and asylum seekers, social exclusion, migration policies of Turkey and Europe.

I am an Associate professor of Political Science at the International relations institute of Cameroon (IRIC). Former PhD fellow at Sciences Po / CEVIPOF in Paris, France (2007-2010), I defended a PhD thesis entitled "The virtual citizenship and new forms of political participation of Cameroonian Immigrants in France". My teaching and research domains are Public Policies in Africa, Migration and Citizenship in Africa, Migration and Expertise, Social Crises, Migration and Cultures.

I have more than 15 years of work experience in international economics, migration, human capital and labour market. Over these years I have accumulated a wide work experience with a regional focus, not only in the Western Balkan countries, EU and EU-CEE, but also other EU neighbouring regions such as southern and Eastern neighbouring regions.

Ana Margheritis is Research Professor at CONICET/UTDT (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research/Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and co-Coordinator of the MIGCITPOL Standing Committee within IMISCOE. She previously worked and hold visitingpositions at highly ranked universities in the USA, Europe, and the UK. She is the author of four sole-authored books, including Migration Governance across Regions (Routledge 2016); editor of two other volumes (including Shaping Migration between Europe and Latin America (SAS Publications, 2018), and co-author of a seventh. Her peer-reviewed articles on transnational migration, international political economy and foreign policy appeared in a wide range of journals. She
has been consultant for EUDO at the European University Institute and private firms in higher education, as well as the UNDP and national research agencies in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Canada.

A media and migration scholar/digital anthropologist with expertise in the material and affective practices of connectivity among European and forced migrants. I am particularly interested in observing the role that media technologies play in shaping transnational identities and communities, but also how they contribute to the circulation of solidarity and support across and despite of borders.

Ivaylo Markov holds a doctoral degree in Ethnology from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethographic Museum – BAS in Sofia (since 2011, PhD thesis “Contemporary Labour Migrations of Albanians from Macedonia”). Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the same institute, where he directs the regular research seminar “Mobility. Migrations. Culture”. He also is a part-time lecturer at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski, where he reads the lecture course "Anthropology of Migrations" within the master’s curriculum of "Interpretative Anthropology".
His research interests are directed toward migration processes in the region of Southeastern Europe. The research projects he has been participating in have allowed him to work with different ethnic, cultural and social groups (some of them dispersed through the state borders) in several SEE countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia). His fieldwork and publications cover the following research topics: historical patterns of human mobility and their reflections on the contemporary migratory dynamics; role of financial and social remittances in socio-cultural transformation’s processes; transnationalism and coping with the live in-between; transnational family-kin relationships, inter-personal conflicts and decision-making issues of migration; memory and heritage in migration, etc.