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Dr. Shelene Gomes is an Anthropologist who specialises in research, training and advocacy on social inclusion in migratory contexts, migrant networks, female labour migration, remittances, gender and development, gender-based violence, multiculturalism and diversity, and workplace discrimination. Over 10 years of professional experience includes university teaching, research, outreach and consulting with institutions in the Caribbean, Eastern and Southern Africa.

Researcher. Arabic & Islamic Studies. MRes in International Relations & African Studies. Decolonial responses to colonial practices in Humanitarianism in refugee communities of the WANA region.

Beatriz González-Martín received her PhD. in Migratory Studies, Development and Social Intervention from the University of Almeria (Spain) in 2013. Her doctoral thesis titled 'Rise and Fall of the Spanish construction sector: Its impact in social and labour situations of immigrant and native workers' was awarded the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in the category of Humanities for that year. Her research interests are focused on migrations, generally related to intergroup relations, integration, mobility, housing and homelessness. She has also worked on return and labour market insertion. Her expertise is in the application of qualitative methods. She has been working on the EU H2020 project YMobility: 'Youth Mobility: maximizing opportunities for individuals, labour markets and regions in Europe' (finished 2018). In this project, she coordinated the qualitative fieldwork carried out in Spain. Nowadays she is highly involved in other research projects related to migrant integration and she is opening a new line of research related to the residential and social exclusion of the immigrant population in Almería. She is currently working as Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, History and Humanities at the University of Almeria.

Elżbieta M. Goździak is a Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Her research agenda focuses on migrant mobility and integration, migration and trafficking, medicalization of human suffering, and migrancy and childhoods. From 2002 to 2018, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown. She also served as an editor-in-chief of International Migration, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on migration policy and research. In 2016, she was the George Soros Chair of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary.

Elżbieta is a recipient of several Fulbright grants as well as a residential fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. Her recent books include: Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat (Palgrave 2020) and Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values? (Routledge 2020) (editor with Izabella Main and Brigitte Suter).

Elżbieta received her doctorate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 1984.

Daniel Granada est Docteur en Ethnologie de l’Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense et PhD en Histoire de l’University of Essex. Diplômé en Sciences Sociales et Mestre en Sociologie et Anthropologie de l’Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/PPGAS), master recherche en Étude des Sociétés Latino Américaines par l'IHEAL (Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. Est professeur adjoint à l'Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brésil) où il dispense des cours en anthropologie, sociologie, anthropologie et sociologie de la santé et de la maladie et débats contemporains.
Il étudie actuellement la relation entre la santé et la migration, les effets de Covid 19 sur les populations migrantes au Brésil et les impacts chez les professionnels de la santé.

My research interests are mainly within the anthropology of migration, with a special focus on refugees and diasporic practices. I am also interested in social memory, gender and home in relation to violent political conflict and flight. My most recent research focuses on the encounters between newly arrived Palestinian refugees and staff at the Swedish Public Employment Service. I am in particularly interested in how the refugees’ experiences of violence are dealt with in those meetings and in the moral issues and bureaucratic strategies that emerge.

I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Gothenburg. My doctoral thesis from 2009 builds on a one-year ethnographic fieldwork in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. In short, the thesis dealt with the many ways that the camp inhabitants tried to maintain continuity, morality and a normal order despite repeated emergencies during the second intifada. I have also done research about Danes and Swedes with a Palestinian background and their diasporic practices, while being a post doc at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. In addition, I have carried out fieldwork in UN-run schools for Palestinian refugee children, focusing on processes of gendered identity formations. I have also worked as a researcher and teacher at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.

Having studied skilled migration, return migration and diaspora repatriation in the context of my home country, Armenia, I have now embarked on an academic boat in Istanbul, Turkey. My doctoral research focuses on the modern labor migration of Armenians to Turkey in the context of the Eurasian migration system and post-Soviet social transformations. Being based in Istanbul, I also take a chance of exploring the indigenous Armenian community and their experiences as a minoritised group in Turkey.

PhD Geography, Clark University