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Dora Sampaio (PhD Human Geography, Sussex) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, where she explored the (im)mobilities of transnational ageing and caregiving with a focus on ageing Brazilian parents and their migrant offspring in North America and Europe, taught at the University of Sussex, and was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon, where she collaborated in a number of international projects in the field of Migration Studies. Her research interests include international migration, life course, intergenerational relationships, socio-spatial inequalities, and urban displacement, primarily in Brazil and Portugal.

I have done research on migration-related themes for more than fourteen years. Worked at international organisations in Turkey and universities in five different countries (Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, Turkey, UK). Currently, I am engaged in my post-doctoral research at the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca. I am reviewing for a couple of important scientific journals on migration and my research interests are quite broad: highly skilled migrants from Italy and Turkey and brain drain, mobility vs. migration from a theoretical lens, Turkish migration policies in the light of Turkish-EU relations, temporary migration policies in Canada and the UK, literary works of Turkish-Kurdish authors in exile, integration policies regarding migrants and refugees, and cultural policies and cultural heritage in Italy (this is more based on my political science background).

My name is Eduardo and I’m 36. I’m a journalist by education and profession, and a researcher in migration studies currently based in the city of Dakar, in Senegal.
Before moving to Senegal, I spent five years living in Myanmar, two years in Ghana and six years in Kenya. In these places I worked as a foreign correspondent for several newspapers and radio stations covering different issues, such as ethnic conflict, gender violence or economic development. Along with a degree in Journalism by the University Complutense of Madrid, I have two Master of Arts: one in Journalism and one—from SOAS University of London— in the emergence and development of Muslim minorities in both Western and non-Western contexts. Furthermore, I am currently pursuing a PhD in Migration Studies at the University of Sussex in the UK. My research focus on the discrimination and racialisation of some ethnic minorities of Myanmar.

Elena Sánchez-Montijano is Research Professor at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE, Mexico) and Researcher at Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona) and a Master in International Cooperation and Development from the Granada University. Previously, she was Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB and Associate Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) at UPF. Her main areas of interest are migrant integration policies, migration regimes and the transnational relations of foreigners with their countries of origin. Currently, she is co-coordinating the project ‘Towards an Integration Policy for those on the Move in Mexico’, funded by Open Society Foundation; researcher at IT-FLOWS project (IT tools and methods for managing migration flows), funded by the H2020 from the European Commission; and researcher at ‘Atlantic Network 2.0’ project, funded by European Jean Monnet programme. In the past, she was the Scientific Coordinator of the SAHWA project (Researching Arab Mediterranean Youth: Towards a New Social Contract) funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. Also, she was the co-director of the project Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX). She has participated in dozens of academic European projects. She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University, in 2010, at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), Université de Liège, in 2012, and at Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in 2019.

Dr. Marie Sandberg is Associate professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at University of Copenhagen. Trained as an ethnologist her research focuses on everyday life Europeanisation, European borders and migration practices. She studies how borders in/of everyday life are continuously negotiated, overcome, and rebuilt in interactions such as volunteer work in support of refugees coming to Europe. She is the PI of the research-practice collaborative project conducted in collaboration with DRC Danish Refugee Council, Danish Red Cross, and Absalon: Boundary Work - New interfaces between state and civil society: Volunteerism and refugees in a self-support and repatriation context research network, which is funded by the VELUX Foundations 2021-2024. From 2017-2019 she was the PI of Helping Hands: Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens
 funded by the Danish Research Council for Independent Research, and from 2018-2021 Co-PI of the core-group project Diginauts: Migrants’ digital practices in/of the European border regime funded by the Velux Foundations 2018-2020. She has organized several international research conferences and published a number of peer-reviewed articles in high-ranked journals such as Identities and Journal of European Studies, as well as edited volumes. Marie Sandberg was joint editor-in-chief (with Monique Scheer) of the international, A-ranked Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology from 2013-2020. Marie Sandberg is vividly engaged in discussions within international as well as Nordic fields of migration and border studies.

Laure Sandoz currently works as a scientific officer at the Swiss centre of expertise in life course research LIVES. She previously conducted research on transnational entrepreneurship at the University of Neuchâtel, as part of the NCCR On the Move, an interdisciplinary project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which aims to enhance the understanding of contemporary migration patterns. She obtained her PhD from the University of Basel in May 2018 for her project on the mobility of the “highly skilled” towards Switzerland.