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My research explores how cultural producers collaborate with Indigenous, migrant, and multi-ethnic communities to produce transmedia and transcultural counter-narratives of belonging and identity. I recently collaborated on the production of Youth in the City, a digital storytelling experience that displays how migrant youths live, interact and move across the Italian city of Prato. My first monograph Legacies of Indigenous Resistance was published by Peter Lang Oxford in 2019 as part of the ‘Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ series.

PhD Candidate at the CEU Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (Public Policy Track). Her research focuses on migrants’ political activism, critical migration governance, and contentious politics. She is currently a chair of the CEU Migration Research Group. Before her PhD studies, she worked as a consultant at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and for the SIRIUS project (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) at Charles University in Prague.

Cansu Ekmekcioglu is a doctoral candidate at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Zouhair El-Hairan attained a Bachelor's Degree in Media and Communication from Pompeu Fabra University. He also obtained a Master's Degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Barcelona and a Master's Degree in 'Politics/Current Democracies: Nationalism & Multiculturalism' at Pompeu Fabra University.
He is a PhD Candidate of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University, and a Diaspora Facilitator/Technical Assistant at the Catalan Fund for Development Cooperation.

Gabriella Elgenius is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. She joined the Department of Sociology and Work Science in 2014. Gabriella is Associate Member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the RSA. Gabriella received her doctorate from the London School of Economics as a Marie Curie Fellow in 2005, and have held a British Academy post-doc fellowship at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College (2007-2011). She was a lecturer at the University of London and the University of Oxford 2000-2014. Gabriella's research interests include civil society's role for integration and inclusion in socioeconomically and diverse neighborhoods, labor market integration, nationalism and the radical right. Her projects combine theoretical and empirical comparative designs using mixed-methods i.e. qualitative and quantitative methodologies across countries and multi-cited locations.
She is the PI for the following externally funded projects:

RETHINKING INTEGRATION: https://www.vr.se/english/mandates/funding-and-promoting-research/resea…

LOCALiTIES: Civil Society and Employability in Diverse Areas in Sweden and the UK Project: https://localitiesproject.home.blog/project/
Homepage and related projects: https://www.gu.se/omuniversitetet/personal?userId=xelgga&departmentId=0…

EMPOWERING CITIES OF MIGRATION: https://www.gu.se/en/research/empowering-cities-of-migration-new-method…

I’m a Research Professor in Migration Studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). My disciplinary background is in Geography, and my overarching research focus is on the dynamics of migration and transnationalism, in both contexts of emigration and of immigration. My research spans different categories of migrants, including refugees, labour migrants and return migrants, and includes the perspectives of migrants, non-migrant populations, and state actors in emigration and immigration contexts.

I am currently a PhD candidate in English Language Teaching Program, Language Studies Track at METU, Turkey. My research interests lie at the nexus of sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography and critical discourse studies. I primarily focus on politics of linguistic identity in migratory and minority contexts; discourses around migration in online and offline settings; return migration; gender, sexuality and language; new media discourses. I am the coordinator of the Discourse and Corpus Research Group (DISCORE) at METU .

Dr. Zahide Erdoğan received her PhD on Social Policy from the University of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt, Turkey. She holds a Master's degree in Public Finance from Gazi University and she is a graduate of Ankara University's Political Science Faculty's Public Administration program. She works as a visiting lecturer in Turkey. She has been working as an expert at the one of the public institutions since 2010. From October 2018 to October 2019, she was a visiting academic at the University of Oxford COMPAS. Her areas of expertise include integration policies, diaspora policies, highly skilled migration

Cecilia Estrada-Villaseñor holds a PhD in International Migration and Cooperation Development from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Master's Degree in International Relations and Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México, where she collaborated for the magazine NEXOS, in which she worked as an editor. She studied specialized journalism at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently Coordinator of the Refugees and Forced Migrants Chair - INDITEX. Coordinator of OBIMID (Ibero-American Observatory on Human Mobility, Migrations and Development) at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain.

Dr. Benjamin Etzold is a social geographer and migration scholar with more than 15 years of experience in studying people’s vulnerability and livelihoods as well as trajectories of migration and patterns of displacement. He works at the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC), a peace and conflict studies think tank.
He led the EU-funded H2020 project TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations of Displacement, 2019-2022), which investigated the translocal dimensions of protracted displacement, as scientific coordinator. https://trafig.eu