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Gizem KOLBAŞI MUYAN is working at the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities as an expert since 2011. She gave lectures on iimmigrant integration and diaspora studies at the Departments of International Relations and Sociology, METU as a guest lecturers between 2018-2020. She had her Ph.D. at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2017 with her thesis titled “Interactions between Family Reunification and Integration: Marriages of Second Generation Turkish Dutch from Turkey”. She received her bachelors in International Relations from METU and had her master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization at the University of Malta, Faculty of Law with the European Commission scholarship. Her main areas of interest are immigrant integration, family reunification, diaspora studies, transnationalism, citizenship, EU law, Turkey-EU Assocation Law, EU migration policy, governance of migration at the national and international level, human rights law, interdisciplinary researches and qualitative research methods.

Eleonore Komai is a PhD researcher in Political Science at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). Her research interests focus on immigration policy and politics in a comparative perspective, particularly on issues related to labor migration, skills, race and ethnicity, and integration.

Angeliki Konstantinidou is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liége for the ERC-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe” (MiTSoPro) . As part of her joint PhD studies, she is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) of SciencesPo. Her research interests include: social protection, comparative politics, international migration, political participation, political representation, integration policies for immigrant-origin minorities, party competition

Hi, I am doing my PhD in Social Anthropology and my thesis focuses on uncertainty which is experienced by Syrian Refugees due to their status which is “under contemporary protection” and its affects on their decision illegal migration to the Europe to gain refugee rights.

Anna Korteweg is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on the ways in which the perceived problems of immigrant integration are constructed in the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity and national origin. From this critical vantage point, she has published extensively on debates surrounding the wearing of the headscarf, so-called “honour-based” violence, and Sharia law. Her current projects look at the return of women who joined IS to their European home countries, the construction of LGBTQ/gender rights in refugee politics, and the citizenship implications of refugee sponsorship in Canada. Her research has been funded by multiple national and international grants.