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Armando Aliu is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of the International and Political Studies, Centre for International Studies and Development (CISAD) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). He is a Member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Law Society of England and Wales, Max Planck Alumni Association (MPAA), European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), MIT-SOLVE, and the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET). He holds a Ph.D. Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the ICU, Department of International Commerce and the European Union Law. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Competence, Migration Governance and Collaboration in the Balkans and Turkey: Migration and Refugees Issues from the European Union Law Perspective.” He holds a Master's degree in European Studies from the University of Hamburg in Germany. His M.A. dissertation is entitled “Controlling Migration and Hybrid Model: A Comparison of Western Balkans and North African Countries.” In his dissertation, he argued migration flows and asylum issues in the frame of empirical, analytical, and political comparisons of Western Balkans and North African countries.
Dr. Aliu was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2011-2014). Based on one year contract (2011-2012) he was a DAAD investigator in the "Schumpeter Project: Constitutional Reasoning in Europe" conducted at Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. At the institute, he also worked independently on Hybridity Project: Innovative Governance, and Controlling Migration.
In 2017, he was a Visiting Study Fellow in the Department of International Development, IMI at the University of Oxford. He has over 10 years of research experience and over 100 scientific publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, congress proceedings, edited books, book chapters, project proposals, and so on. Since 2012, he has been serving as peer/reviewer for SSCI, SCI, A&H, ESCI indexed journals. Since 2014, he has been serving as a SEDIA funding & tender expert and senior ECAS EU project referee for the European Commission. He is an expert in the EU Project Writing Techniques, the EU Projects Evaluation Criteria, and Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Project Management Standards.
His research interests contain; politics and administration, migration and refugee studies, asylum, criminal justice, human rights, ethics, UN SDGs, European studies, EU law, governance, WTO law, stakeholder approach, and so on.
He is Associate Editor of Cogent Social Sciences and Frontiers in Political Science, Article Editor of Sage Open, and Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Business Policy & Governance, Social Sciences Advisory Board Member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and Roster member of UN Migration Research Hub and EU Mieux Initiative. He is an Outstanding/Recognised Peer of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer); Academy of Management (AoM); Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (Brill - Nijhoff & Lynne Rienner Publishers); Journal of International Migration and Integration (Springer); Cambridge Journal of Science & Policy (University of Cambridge, CJSP); Journal of Travel Medicine (Oxford University Press); Globalization and Health (Springer); Innovation and Impact (De Gruyter Open); Economia Politica (Springer); SAGE Open (SAGE Publications); International Journal of Intercultural Relations (Elsevier); Journal of Migration Health (Elsevier); International Economics and Economic Policy (Springer); Tourism Management (Elsevier); Annals of Tourism Research (Elsevier); Current Issues in Tourism (Taylor and Francis – Routledge); International Journal of Tourism Research (Wiley); Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis); Cogent Education (Taylor and Francis); MDPI Social Sciences; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Healthcare (MDPI); Administrative Sciences (MDPI); Sustainability (MDPI); Journal of Personalized Medicine; Journal of Risk and Financial Management; Genealogy (MDPI); Societies (MDPI); Energies (MDPI); Journal of open innovation; Tourism and Management Studies (Algarve, PL). He was an associate member in the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement and a CUSPE fundraiser at the University of Cambridge. In 2021, he worked as an International Consultant and PostDoc researcher at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) – United Nations Migration Agency. In Spring 2023, he has been awarded a LIAS Fellowship and affiliated with the KU Leuven as Visiting Fellow at the Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (LIAS) and Visiting Scholar at the KU Leuven Faculty of Medicine in Leuven (Belgium).

Hooshmand Alizadeh received PhD degree in urban design from Newcastle University, UK in 2006. He is associate professor at the University of Kurdistan and senior postdoc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has more than fifteen years’ experience of teaching and research in Urban Studies, particularly dealing with different aspects of urbanism in general and public space in particular. The most important scholarly achievement is the development of the concept of Kurdish city in general and the concept of women’s spatiality based on the extent of their interactions with and empowerment from public spaces in his new research project (was funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2019) defined based on a comparative study in different urban contexts of Middle East and Europe.

Hilal Alkan is a researcher based at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. She completed her PhD at the Open University, UK. She conducted extensive ethnographic research with informal neighborhood organizations providing initial assistance to migrants and refugees in Istanbul. In another project she worked with Syrian refugees who lived in Turkey and then fled to Germany to comparatively understand the two migration contexts from the viewpoint of refugees themselves. Most recently, she is working on multispecies care in contexts of displacement and migration, with a particular focus on plants.

Jean Allegrini is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science from University College London (UCL) and an independent researcher using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Jean specialises on the governance of divided societies at the local level in the Levant (especially Lebanon), Mediterranean, and Central Asia. He focuses on the power strategies possessed by clientelist elites to perpetuate their domination at times of migratory crisis. Jean advises governments and think-tanks on Levantine affairs.

Magali N. Alloatti is a consultant for IOM Brazil, worked as an analyist for the UNDP (2023), as an Officer for Political Relations at Global Affairs Canada (2022) and it has been an associated researcher at the State Observatory for Migrations (SC) since 2013. She was postdoctoral fellow CAPES DAAD at Hamburg University (2019-2020) and previously a postdoctoral fellow at the State Observatory for Migrations in Santa Catarina at the Laboratory for Gender and Family relations (UDESC) (2018-2019). Her work has been published at Gender, Work & Organization, Sociologia Política, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Andvances in Gender Research, among others. She has recently joined the Standing Committee Immigration, Immigrants and Labour Markets in Europe (IMISCOE)
She was invited as an expert panelist by the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (Florence) (2020); also as an international lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University (2020), an as International Guest Professor at the sociology department in Bielefeld University teaching on international migration, ethnic economy, gender, race and ethnicity (2017). Has been invited to conferences organized by the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) (2018,2021, 2022) and at the BGHS in Bielefeld. She was also a scholarship recepient from Women Deliver as a gender advocate participating at the conference in Vancouver in 2019.
She graduated in sociology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, in 2010; got her master’s degree in 2013 and her PhD in sociology in 2017, both at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Her PhD was obtain in collaboration with University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at the Sociology Department and The Center for the Study of International Migration during 2015- 2016 with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in migration sociology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. I am also affiliated with Georgetown University Qatar, as a visiting Scholar in Residence. My work focuses on migration politics, diversity management and citizenship regimes in the ArabGulf states, with a particular focus on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) & Saudi Arabia. My postdoctoral research examines the professional pathways of long-term (Arab and South Asian) ‘expats’ in Qatar, in particular those with middle-class backgrounds, and the ways in which they navigate differential inclusion, semi-enforced temporality, and infra-national belonging.

I hold a joint PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium). My doctoral work addressed the labor migration of highly-skilled EU nationals with second-generation, Maghrebi-Muslim backgrounds engaging in alternative social mobilities by moving overseas.

One of my longstanding research foci is the social, cultural, and economic development of the Gulf Arab states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the energy-rich Persian Gulf region. My broader research interests include the anthropology of migration, labour sociology, global cities, ethnography of the state, skilled and white-collar work, social mobility and transnational class making, the political economy of race, political Islam, sectarianism, and energy politics in Europe and the larger Middle East.

My work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Mobilities, Middle East Critique, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, and Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

Contact: Jaafar.alloul@ntu.edu.sg

Dr Sajida Zareen Ally is Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Health at the University of Bristol and a Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of social, medical and political anthropology with a focus on South Asian migration to the Arab Gulf, and global public health. Sajida is interested in the phenomenological and socio-cultural dimensions of migrant illness/wellness experience, migrants’ health-related entitlements, and the transnational governance of labour migration and healthcare, particularly in Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Her current research is supported by REALM (Research & Empirical Analysis of Labour Migration) – a project led by INCITE, Columbia University and funded by New York Univeristy-Abu Dhabi.

Shaddin Almasri is a Jordanian-American PhD candidate based in Krems, Austria. Her research interests are in aid policy, development, and refugee labor integration with a regional focus on the Middle East. Previously, she held research and advocacy roles at Oxfam in Jordan and at the WANA Institute, a local Jordanian thinktank. She holds an MSc Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London and a BA Economics from the American University of Sharjah. She has held a variety of roles in short term research projects spanning topics such as climate migration, refugee discrimination, stratification in labor migration policy and refugee access to self-reliance mechanisms. .She is currently a PhD Migration Studies candidate at Danube University Krems, where she is conducting research on nationality-based discrimination in refugee aid and inclusion policies across Jordan, Turkey and Ethiopia.

Silvia Almenara Niebla works as postdoctoral researcher at Communication Studies Department (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). She works on the ERC project Reel Borders lead by prof. Kevin Smets. She obtained her PhD in gender and migration studies (Universidad de La Laguna, 2020, extraordinary doctoral prize) with a study on transnational belonging and media practices among Sahrawi refugees from a gender perspective. She is vice-chair of the Diaspora, Migration and the Media section of ECREA.

Faime Alpagu studied Sociology in Istanbul and Vienna. Her dissertation project was funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and she received the 2016 Dissertation Award for Research on Migration from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research has been further supported by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften and City of Vienna.