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Maayan's socio-legal research focuses on trafficking for labour exploitation, the regulation of labour migration, and the rights of non-citizens. Her current project 'Work as a Site of Agency and a Site of Exploitation' compares the understanding of labour exploitation across policymakers, law enforcement agents and people with lived experience of exploitation, and was awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant.

Panagiotis Nikas holds a Bachelor's degree in Theology and in Law. He also holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Public Administration.
In 2012 he served as Director of the First Reception Service in the Greek Ministry for Asylum and Migration for five years. During his term, he acted as ccordinator of the National Action Plan for Asylum and Migration and led the transformation of the Greek Reception and Identification system for mixed migration flows.
After leaving the Service, he worked as an expert in asylum in Europe mainly as member of think-tanks and independent researcher, promoting policy changes in National Reception and Asylum systems.
Since 2018 he is the founder and director of ZEUXIS, a Greek NGO operating nationally implementing projects aiming at providing support and protection to vulnerable groups (i.e. refugees and migrants, unaccompanied children, single parent families etc).

I am sociologist with an expertise in ethnic and migration studies and a co-editor of a forthcoming volume "Visual Methods in Migrations Studies" (2021, Springer, with A.Desille). I research immigrant communities in Europe (Turkey included) with use of ethnography and visual and sensory methods. In 2015-2016 I was a Marie Curie Early Stage researcher and INTEGRIM fellow hosted by Migration Research Center, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.

MA, Applied Linguistics, Identity(ies) in Narrative

Social scientist with the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences group. I work across a number of research projects both national and international in scope, investigating rural issues. These include: demographic change and migration into and out of rural remote areas of Scotland; rural and island responses to Covid-19 in Scotland, exploring the effectiveness of digitalisation and digital tools in crofting communities in Scotland and issues of belonging and home for return migrants in southern and western counties of Ireland.

Morgiane is a Ph.D. researcher in the protection and the creation of an efficient legal framework for climate migrants.
She previously researched the consequences of gender stereotypes in Asylum claims across Europe.
She has experience in immigration law and in migrants and refugees integration.

I am a Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, where my research focuses on women’s rights, human rights & refugees in the Middle East and North Africa. I earned my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine in 2017.

I am an anthropologist and environmental humanities scholar with research interests in the connections between mobility, environment, and infrastructure, primarily among transient communities in the Arctic and Asia. I have an undergraduate degree from Cornell in Arabic and Turkish, and graduate degrees from Oxford in Social Anthropology. I am the PI of the ERA.NET funded consortium CONTOURS: Conservation, Tourism, Remoteness, the deputy director of the Biodiverse Anthropocenes Research Programme, and the founding editor of Palgrave’s Arctic Encounters book series.