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Dr Zana Vathi has been conducting research in the field of migration since 2005. She is Reader/Associate Professor in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University in the UK. She was trained at the University of Sussex where she completed her PhD in Migration Studies in 2011. Dr Vathi is an expert in qualitative migration studies with fieldwork experience in in over 6 countries and with various migrant groups.

Doctora en Economía. MBA y Magister en Gerencia de Proyectos de Ingeniería. Economista
Adicionalmente, capacitada en cursos del BCR; la Universita de Trento -Italia. Ha desarrollado proyectos e investigaciones económicas en diversas empresas del medio. Actualmente Directora de la Carrera Profesional de Economía.
Experiencia profesional en el desarrollo de proyectos internacionales y nacionales de alto impacto en el desarrollo del país. Colaboradora Externa de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones.
Especialidades: mercado laboral, movilidad laboral, y actualmente trabajando el tema de Migraciones Internacionales y Remesas. Tercera Misión.

Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.

Professor of migration history

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Centre d'Etudes Européennes et de Politiques Comparées, Sciences-Po, Paris.
Sociologist

Sofie Vindevogel, PhD in Educational Sciences, is affiliated to HoGent, Belgium. Her research is situated at the nexus of strengths-oriented, community-based and transcultural approaches. She has a particular interest in community resilience in contexts of collective violence and social injustice, and has been working with populations affected by armed conflict and political violence.

Maarten Vink is Chair in Citizenship Studies and Director of the Global Citizenship research area within the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He is also Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a web platform that provides user-friendly open access to a major worldwide collection of data and analyses on citizenship laws and access to franchise for academic researchers and policy communities.

Vink led the research project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)” funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021). He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (OUP, 2017) and has published on immigrant naturalisation, comparative citizenship regimes, dual citizenship, among others.

Maarten Vink is on leave from Maastricht University where he is Professor of Political Sociology and was one of the founders of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University (2003).

Dr Daniela VINTILA is Associate Coordinator and Senior Network Officer of IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège. She is also Maître de Conférences at CEDEM and chair of the ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity and of the IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unification. Currently, Daniela is member of the Belgian team of the EU-funded project "Social Inclusion and Access to Basic Services of Third-Country Nationals" (AccessIN). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her interests lie, especially, in the areas of international migration, EU citizenship, comparative politics, political participation and representation, and social protection policies.