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Yiran Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and iHub at Radboud University. She is also a researcher at Radboud University Network on Migration Inclusion (RUNOMI). Yiran did her PhD at Leiden University on prejudice among underrepresented ethnic children and some social-contextual factors they are exposed to, such as their parents, literature, and COVID-19. Her current research focus is on potential discrimination risks in artificial intelligence in the context of migration.

Ayan Yasin Abdi, is a Ph.D.-fellow at the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. She is a board member of Ph.D. Association of Roskilde University (PARU), and she teaches and publishes in the areas of diasporic cultures, ethnicity and minority studies, the welfare state, transnational ties, migration and mobility, post-migration movements, gender, globalization, decolonial studies, racialization, and postcolonialism. Email: ayan@ruc.dk

Caitlyn Yates is a PhD student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on the journeys of migrants from the African and Asian continents who transit in and through Latin America. In particular, I focus on human security, transit migration, extra-continental migration, migrant smuggling, and borders in Latin America. Currently, I am a fellow in the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI) at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and an affiliate of UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies. I hold a BA in Anthropology from Trinity University and a Master of Global Policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

My research is action-oriented, primarily informed by social and community psychology approaches. It addresses the socio-structural causes of injustice relating to climate change, racism, immigration, and the nexus between the three. Currently, my PhD research, through the University of Auckland, is exploring attitudes to and the implications of climate change-related migration in Aotearoa New Zealand,working alongside Tuvaluan and I-Kiribati diasporic communities.

Başak Yavcan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey, where she heads an interdisciplinary graduate program on Migration Studies. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Hugo Observatory of Environment Migration and Politics, University of Liège. She holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Political Science, has conducted research at Michigan University’s Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, at New York University and at the Northwestern University Buffett Institute’s Keyman Modern Turkish Studies.

Yavçan's research focuses on inter-group relations and public opinion, in particular regarding refugee integration, impact of immigration attitudes on Euroscepticism, immigrant acculturation attitudes and structural and environmental drivers of migration. She has worked extensively on the integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey, with a particular focus on inter-group attitudes, employment, institutional trust, Islamic radicalization, effectiveness of local and national policies and interventions on promoting cohesion. Yavçan has conducted field research in various countries as part of national and international grant schemes, using both quantitative and qualitative methods including surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews and content analyses and her resulting work has been published in a number of journals including Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Communication, Turkish Studies, books and policy reports for international institutions such as UNESCO, ICMPD, Care International, and GIZ.