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I am a scholar of social movements and migration and currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, with affiliations in Peace and Conflict Studies and American Studies. My research to date reflects my intellectual and personal interest in understanding how foreign workers, immigrants, and refugees engage in collective action to challenge hegemonic power and create new kinds of political spaces. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, and the American Philosophical Society. I have published my research in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Mobilization, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Sociology Compass, and Asian Survey.

Joyce Raanhuis is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Lecturer, and Consultant in the field of international education, with a strong emphasis on social justice, equity, and transformation across post-conflict and post-colonial contexts. Her current postdoctoral research combines her research interests in education and migration by exploring the teaching of controversial issues in post-colonial contexts, focusing on pre-service History teachers in South Africa, Curaçao, Suriname and the Netherlands.

Joyce is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She holds a Doctorate in Education from the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) in Teacher Education at the Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town, South Africa, and an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. She recently completed her doctoral research, which focused on the crucial roles of teachers and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes promoting social cohesion in post-apartheid South Africa.

PhD student in sociology at Nord University, focusing on civilian support to migrants in Europe. Her PhD project looks into assistance from Scandinavian citizens to irregular migrants in Europe, and young Afghan migrants in particular. Rabe has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Volda University College. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a senior advisor for the Norwegian Red Cros

Branislav Radeljic is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Government and Society, United Arab Emirates University, UAE. In addition, he serves as Visiting Professor of European Politics at Nebrija University, Spain. His scholarly interests focus on European and Middle Eastern political and socioeconomic developments. Previously, he lectured in Turkey and the United Kingdom, and he also held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Radeljic is the author and editor of numerous publications, and he is regularly invited to present his findings at conferences and workshops. He has participated in different project writing processes and consequently served as an implementation partner on several EU-sponsored projects, including Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe. Outside academia, on an occasional basis, Professor Radeljic conducts research and provides consultancy services within his area of expertise. His clients range from government entities to non-governmental stakeholders. He is also a registered expert witness for asylum, refugee, and immigration cases, and he covers Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, and Turkey.

Agnieszka is currently a collaborator of the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research at the University of Wolverhampton. Until recently she was Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, working on a two-year research project “Brexit and Deportations: Towards a Comprehensive and Transnational Understanding of a New System Targeting EU Citizens” (BRAD).

Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. She has published widely on retheorising migration of international students, skilled migrants and that of care-workers. She has primarily worked on India but is also currently involved in several projects on migration within Africa. She has co-authored Gender, Migration and Social Reproduction (Palgrave), The Practice of Cultural Studies (Sage), Gender and International Migration in Europe (Routledge) and co-edited South Asian women in the diaspora (Berg) and Tracing Indian diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations (Sage). She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-tanks such as IPPR, UNRISD, the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, IPPR and UNRISD and co-edited a special issue of the journal Diversities for UNESCO. She co-edits the journal South Asian Diaspora with the Centre for Study of Diaspora, Hyderabad and the Palgrave Pivot series Mobility and Politics with Martin Geiger and William Walters both at Ottawa.

Dr mult. Ladan Rahbari is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, at the University of Amsterdam, and a senior researcher at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She was formerly based in Ghent University, Belgium as the recipient of an FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) post-doctoral fellowship (2019-2022).

Rahbari obtained a Ph.D. in Gender and Diversity (Studies) from UGent and VUB (2019) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Mazandaran (2015 "Doctor in de Politieke en Sociale Wetenschappen"), a Master’s degree in Anthropology (Tehran University), and a Bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature (Tehran University).

Rahbari's research interests include gender politics, migration, religion, body and digital media with a general focus on Iran and Western Europe, and in the frameworks of postcolonial, feminist, and critical theories. She is currently affiliated with the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (CRCG) and Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA) and the alliance ECSO.be.

Between September 2019 and September 2020, Rahbari was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).

Aziz Rahman has long been engaged in interdisciplinary research, teaching and community development work. He earned his doctoral degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba (UM), a master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree in Regional Development Planning jointly from the University of Dortmund, Germany, and the University of the Philippines Diliman, and a master’s degree and an undergraduate honours degree in Sociology from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Aziz has taught sociology, criminology, and migration and displacement courses at the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba. He has taught as a faculty member in Bangladeshi universities for over ten years. Aziz is the recipient of a number of scholarships including the SSHRC Joseph Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship. His PhD thesis explored refugee economic integration in Canada. Aziz’s SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research focus is on refugee entrepreneurship in Canada, with the goal to identify to policymakers the factors affecting the successful labor market integration of resettled refugees in Canada. Aziz has published books, peer reviewed articles and presented research papers at conferences on various topics including refugee integration issues, public views of crime and policing, Islamist terrorism, ethnic violence, colonialism, hate crime and gig workers’ experiences. Aziz established two non-profit organizations based in Bangladesh to improve the quality of life of underprivileged population groups through community development projects, training, research, and advocacy. Aziz is an alumnus of the inaugural cohort of the President Student Leadership Program (PSLP) at UM. He is currently serving on the Board of Winnipeg Immigrant Partnership advisory table on Immigration and Indigenous Peoples, the Canadian Association of Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, the Institute of Cultural Affairs Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Criminological Association.

Afzalur Rahman teaches International Relations at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Since July 2017. He stood first in both undergraduate and graduate programs of International Relations from the University of Chittagong respectively in 2012 and 2013. He did an MS thesis on “Irregular Migration from Bangladesh To Malaysia: Causes and Consequences”. His research interest includes irregular migration, trafficking, drug smugglings, refugees, geopolitics, international order, and international relations theories. He has presented recently two papers on Irregular Migration of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas to Malaysia at the 1st International Symposium on Migration and Diaspora (ISMD-2019) organized by the University of Malaya and another at the Migration Conference-2020 hosted by South East European University, North Macedonia.