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Patricia Mindus is a legal and political philosopher at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has an interest in legal realism, democratic theory and migration. Signature contributions include the functionalist theory of citizenship and the theory of migration as institutional fact. Previously Wallenberg Academy Fellow, she is now the Director of Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice and the President of the Swedish IVR. She directs research on citizenship and migration policy in the EU, with a political and legal theory perspective and has authored several monographs on citizenship , European citizenship and rights.

Alejandro Miranda-Nieto is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Diversity Studies Centre Oslo, Oslo Metropolitan University. His current research looks at the sense of home and dynamics of integration among migrant professionals in Oslo. He is the author of academic articles on mobilities, home, migration, music and ethnography. His monograph Musical Mobilities has been published in the Routledge Advances in Ethnography series, and the co-authored book Ethnographies of Home and Mobility in the Routledge Home series.

Born in March 1988 in Kabul, Afghanistan. I worked with different governmental and non-governmental organizations between 2007 and 2013 in Afghanistan. I hold a BA in Political Science from Kateb University, an MA in International Relations, and a Ph.D. in Social Science majoring in International Relations from Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. My doctoral dissertation is The Persistence of Taliban in the Post-Afghan Taliban Regime; Combining Contributions of Internal and External Factors. I am an active academic researcher and speaker and have been invited as a keynote speaker in various national and international seminars & webinars. My expertise is in Terrorism and security studies, globalization, and Cosmopolitanism studies. Currently, I am a lecturer at Universitas Airlangga and a senior researcher at REDI research.

Amal Miri holds a PhD in Gender & Diversity from Ghent University. In this ethnographic research at the intersection of marriage migration, motherhood and integration among Moroccan women in Flanders, she conducted feminist and participatory action research with expertise in affective citizenship. As part of this research, she has published in several international peer-reviewed journals such as JEMS. In the past she worked as a project researcher at ella, a non-profit organization promoting the empowerment and participation process of women from ethnic minority (ECM) groups in Brussels and Flanders. During this period Miri worked on a government funded project called NASIB, dedicated to empower and inform actual (Flanders) and future marriage migrants (in Morocco). Today she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS - department of Sociology).

Experienced teacher-scholar with a wealth of experience in educational research, consultancy, refugee education, teacher training, and English language teaching.