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I am a human geographer focusing on social and development geography in the global south. In my work I focus on issues related to social inequalities, human-technology-relations, human-environment-relations, and social resilience in the context of globalisation. I am particularly interested in the diversifying patterns of mobilities and migration as well as digital transformations in the global south. My theoretical approach is, among others, inspired by Bourdieu's theory of practice, the new mobilities paradigm, as well as debates on translocality, transnationalism, and social resilience. In my point of view good geographical research should not only be theoretically profound but also empirically grounded. There is no good theory without proper and profound empirical research and vice versa.
I studied geography, development economics, and anthropology at the University of Bonn and focused in my PhD research on migration and translocal dimensions of social resilience in gendered migration systems. I very much appreciate working with Mixed-Methods and Multi-sited Ethnography and have worked for many years in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore, and Germany.

Muhip Caglidil is a migration researcher and data collection expert with experience in humanitarian aid and emergency operations. Caglidil specializes in data collection solutions in hard-to-reach areas and conducting rapid needs assessments. Caglidil holds an M.A degree in International Relations from Central European University and previously worked at International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save The Children International in Germany, Turkey and Iraq.

I am a PhD student of the doctoral programme in «Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions» within Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) of the University of Padua in Italy. My PhD research project entitled «Transnational belongings and mobility paths: the migratory careers of Tunisian people in Italy», aims at understanding the factors influencing the establishment and maintenance of transnational relationships along the migratory pathways and the weight of identity issues in this complex. In this light I have conducted multi-sited research in Northern and Southern Italy, delving into the contextual-driven differences influencing transnationality.

Ilenia Maria Calafiore is geopolitical analyst, specialized in Climate Change related Migration. She is researcher affiliated to Instituto Seneca, Centro Internacional de Posgrado, where she is enrolled in Master in Migraciòn y Atenciòn al Refugiado. She already holds a bachelor in International Studies.

Dr Klement Camaj is a Lecturer with the University of the West of Scotland within the Master of Public Administration program. Dr Camaj is a multilingual, multimethodological, storytelling researcher focused on international migration, transnationalism, and cultural identity. Klement received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Radford University in the United States, his master’s degree in Geopolitics, Territory, and Security, from King’s College London, and PhD in International Migration, Transnationalism, and Cultural Diplomacy from the University of the West of Scotland. His research focus is mainly located within the connected fields of Migration studies and Transnationalism, with a special interest in issues of diaspora and cultural identity.

Klement's main strengths consist in qualitative and multidisciplinary work, using ethnographic, narrative, and multimethodological approaches towards data collection and analysis. Klement is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, and a Member of The Royal Anthropological Institute. Klement tweets as @DrCamaj and his contact e-mail is klement.camaj@uws.ac.uk.

Jáfia Naftali Câmara earned her BA in English Literature, Criticism and Theory from the University of California in 2015 and a MA in English and Foreign Language Education from New York University in 2017. Jáfia is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol's School of Education, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on refugee and asylum-seeking students’ perspectives and experiences of education.

Stefano Camatarri is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he is also member of the research group in Transnational Relations, Democratization and Migration (TransDeM). Previously, he was JSPS Fellow at Waseda University (Japan) and FSR post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research interests regard the comparative study of political behaviour and attitudes, electoral competition, migrant political participation and engagement 'across borders'. His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as European Union Politics, Political Studies Review, the Swiss Political Science Review and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Seda CAN TOPKAN received her PhD degree in Sociology from Hacettepe University in 2022. Her research focuses on the transnational political participation of Turkish-Belgian dual citizens living in Belgium.

Nergis Canefe is a Professor at the Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Canada and a graduate faculty member at Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Socio-Legal Studies, Humanities, Osgoode Hall Law School and Graduate Programme in
Public Policy and Law at the same institution. She received her PhD at York University, Programme in Social and Political Thought and her SJD (PhD in Law) at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. She is a Middle Eastern-Canadian scholar of applied political philosophy, comparative politics and international criminal law. Before joining York University, she was the inaugural post-doctoral fellow of the Past and Present Society, Oxford University, a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and the European Institute, London School of Economics. She also held teaching posts at Binghamton University, New York, USA, Bogazici and Bilgi University in Turkey, and Shanghai University, China. She was a Harley Harlett scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School and has held two consecutive fellowships at IWM (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna, Austria (2021/2022). She is the current and immediate past Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), and the inaugural program co-director for the organization’s Arts and Forced Migration initiative. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Forced Migration, Northwestern University, USA, and Delhi School of Transnational Affairs (DSTA), Delhi University, India. She is the co-editor of journal Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Nations and Nationalism (1998-2006), Displaced Voices: Journal of Living Archives, and Mülkiye SBF Dergisi. She has been a frequent guest editor for the journal Refuge published by MCRG, Kolkata, India. She served as the Associate Director for the Center for Refugee Studies (2008-2013), and is an associate faculty member of both the CRS and Nathanson Center at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. She is also an adjunct faculty associate at the Center for the Study of Human Rights Law, Bilgi University Faculty of Law since 2009, and Center for Human Rights Law at Bilkent University Faculty of Law since 2022. She is a member of the Turkish chapter of IVR (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy). She is also the advisory board member of Lives in Dignity Grant Facility and the Western Minaret Organization.
Canefe is a practicing visual artist and mural painter with several exhibitions and installations in public spaces in Canada, Turkey and Cyprus. Since 2017, she has been experimenting with art/essay format in her academic publications. She has widely published on historical injustice, accountability regimes, politics of dispossession, mass displacement, excesses of nationalism, trauma and memory as well as ethics of witnessing and war crimes/crimes against humanity nexus. Her most recent research addresses the dispossession of unorthodox minorities in the Middle East, and, ethics of witnessing vis-à-vis work on human suffering.
Current Projects:
 Statelessness as a Permanent State (York University, Canada)
 Ethics of Witnessing and Redefining Collective Responsibility (IWM visiting fellow, Vienna, Austria)

Fields of Research:
• Global Politics of Dispossession
• Critical Forced Migration and Citizenship Studies
• Trauma, Memory, Atrocities of War and Societal Crimes
• Jurisprudential debates on International Criminal Law
• Nationalism and Mass Violence
• Theories of Justice and Debates on Collective Responsibility
• Politics and Ethics of Hope