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Postdoc Guest Researcher at the University of Copenhagen with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Working on: internationalisation of education, valuation of international credentials, cosmopolitan capital, transnational social mobility, luxury hospitality industry and the role of Switzerland in the circulation of privileged groups.

Zeynep Demir (MSc) is a psychologist, researcher and lecturer. She works in the research group Socialization (Prof. Andreas Zick's Lab) at the Faculty of Educational Science and in the Research Networking Office of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) Community, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University (Germany). Her research focuses on migration, acculturation, discrimination, racism, and diversity. As part of her academic service work, she was the Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission at the Faculty of Educational Science. In the area of science communication, she is active as co-host of the award-winning academic podcast ReSearching Diversity Podcast.

My research interests focus on migration, identity and diasporas: the way communities perform, produce and reproduce belonging, and the spaces they create and recreate. My main areas of study cover Latin America and the Middle East, and the links between the two regions. I have done research in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. I am currently researching the Venezuelan migrations in the Americas. I am also one of the Leads for the Migration and Refugees Research Network at Oxford Brookes University.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/networks/migration-and-refugees-rese…

Labour Migration and Integration Expert.
People first should be the basis for policies and measures.
Giovanni deals with immigration, legal advice, planning, management (operational and financial) and evaluation of programs for the social inclusion of the vulnerable groups. He is interested in migration policies, labour market inclusion policies (labour active policies, traineeships, employment services,) and socio-economic autonomy transition services for unemployed migrant workers, vulnerable families, children with educational and family difficulties, refugees and holders of other forms of protection.
Giovanni works with international organizations, central governments, local authorities (Regions, Municipalities) and other public and private entities. Giovanni has gained experience in the NGO and associations sector.
He gained experience in dealing with EU funded projects and relevant budget procedures.
Giovanni can speak English and Spanish.

Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is a Canadian-Lebanese writer, researcher, university professor, editor and consultant in the areas of Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies.

Dr. Diab is an Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU)’s Department of Social Sciences. In previous roles, she served as the Refugee Health Program Coordinator at the American University of Beirut (AUB)'s Global Health Institute (GHI) and a Research Associate under GHI's Political Economy of Health in Conflict Workstream. Prior to assuming her roles at AUB and LAU, she served as the Research and Project Manager of the Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU)’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, as well as the MENA Regional Focal Point on Migration of the UN General Assembly-mandated UN Major Group for Children and Youth.

She is a Senior Consultant on Refugee and Gender Studies at Cambridge Consulting Services, a Peace Responsiveness Expert at Interpeace, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a Scholar in Forced Displacement at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and the Lead of the Global Research Network's Gender and Migration Research Group at its 'War, Conflict and Global Migration' Think Tank.

Dr. Diab has served as an International Consultant to UN Agencies and International Humanitarian Organizations across the MENA region, and has assisted in evaluating humanitarian programming, conducting research in conflict settings, and developing strategies for organizations' interventions in hard-to-reach areas across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories.

She is a Country of Origin Information Expert to AMERA International's 'Rights in Exile Program,' and an Editorial Board Member at Act for Displaced, the Journal of Internal Displacement and the Journal of Applied Professional Studies at Marywood University. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member to People Beyond Borders and the Indian Society of Legal Research, and an Adjunct Faculty Member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Global Institute of Law.

She holds a PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy with an emphasis on Asylum, Refugees and Security from the esteemed Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of the School of Advanced International and Political Studies at INSEEC U. in Paris, as well as graduate degrees in Feminist Writings, Human Rights and International Law.

Jen Dickinson is a political and development geographer. Her research examines the migration/development nexus, primarily focusing on extra-territorial citizenship, diaspora engagement strategies and diaspora entrepeneurship. Grounded in feminist and postcolonial approaches that engage with the everyday practices of the state, she explores this through a focus on: diaspora diplomacy, diaspora/hometown associations, young people & intergenerationality

2011-2016 Ph.D. Researcher Münster University (Germany),
2010 Research Stay Universidad Guadalajara (Mexico),
2011/12 Research Stay Princeton University (USA),
2013 Research Stay UCLA (USA),
2016-2018 Postdoc Researcher FoKoS Siegen University (Germany),
2017 Guest Researcher Universidad Javeriana (Colombia),
2018 Guest Researcher Kumasi University (Ghana),
2018-2019 Lecturer Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Germany),
since 2019 Research Associate Giessen University (Germany)