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Joana Topa is a Psychologist with a PhD degree in Social Psychology from the University of Minho, Portugal. She is currently an Auxiliar Professor at the University of Maia and an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) that belongs to the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is also a collaborator researcher at the Psychology Centre of the University of Porto, integrated into the research field "Culture, Normativity and Diversity". Specialist in Social, Educational and Community Psychology by the Portuguese Psychologists Association and specialist in Gender Equality, Gender Violence and Migration, she is part of the list of specialists of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG). She is a certified trainer for the Scientific Pedagogical Council for Continuing Education. Author of a book, several book chapters, and articles in national and international scientific journals, her main areas of research are focused on gender, migrations, health, gender violence, intersectionality and social inequalities. More recently she has also been focused on topics such as etnicities, racism and citizenship. Simultaneously, she participated in diverse international and national conferences and integrated diverse scientific committees and events organization. She has actively participated in several funded research projects, both academic and social (FCT; EEA GRANTS/FSE/CIG; Rights, Equality & Citizenship Programme of the European Union, European Cooperation in Science and Technology). In this moment she participates in the transdisciplinary network "Women on the Move" (CA19112), financed within the framework of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). Along these years she also took part in different networks, namely IMISCOE, GENDER & COVID-19 and Immigration, Crime and Citizenship of the European Society of Criminology. Feminist activist, she cooperates with several portuguese NGOs for gender equality and human rights.

is director of Centro Studi Medì. Migrazioni nel Mediterraneo in Genoa (Italy). Co-director of "Mondi Migranti" Journal of Studies and Research on International Migration (publ. Franco Angeli). Member of the scientific committee of "Il Caffè Geopolitico"

PhD. in Communication under the research line "Media Literacy", at the universities of Huelva, Seville, Málaga and Cádiz. PI of the first university games laboratory in Ecuador. P.I of Information Observatory for Humanitarian Crises (ODECRIH)

Humanitarian Aid passionate, IHL and Human Rights Law expert, I work in Brussels on Anti Human Trafficking and Anti Smuggling issues. I hold a Master in advance studies (LL.M) in International Humanitarian Law from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Padova. Before focusing on UNTOC and its protocols, I worked for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs monitoring EU policy developments and exchanging information on operational crisis responses. Prior I have worked for NGOs and diplomatic missions with a special focus on human rights.

Agnieszka Trąbka, PhD, is a migration researcher with a background in sociology and psychology. Since 2014 she has been working in the Institute of Applied Psychology at Jagiellonian University. In 2018 she also joined the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw as a researcher in the project “CEEYouth: The comparative study of young migrants from Poland and Lithuania in the context of Brexit” and “MIMY: EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions” (Horizon 2020). Her research interests encompass migration and mobility studies, identity research, psychology of place and qualitative research methods. She is assistant editor of the journal “Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny” (Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora) and a member of the Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science.

Giorgia is post doctoral researcher at the LEST, University of Aix-Marseille, France. She holds a Phd in Economics and International Studies from the University of Aix-Marseille and University of Naples, L'Orientale. Her research focuses on third sector organisations dealing with reception for asylum seekers and refugees in urban areas, social movements and migration regime and multi-level governance of migration regime.