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I HOLD A MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN MIGRATION STUDIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA AND A BACHELOR OF EDUCATION IN MANAGEMENT. I OCCUPY THE POSITION AS AN ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT AT THE GHANA IMMIGRATION SERVICE. I AM MARRIED WITH TWO KIDS. I HAVE INTEREST IN ISSUES WITH MIGRATION AND SECURITY.

A development professional and Ph.D. Scholar at Tezpur University, Assam, India. Interest Area: Migration, Kino politics, Livelihood contextualization for internal migrants, Social Policy, Social Research.

Tasha Agarwal is a PhD scholar from Ambedkar University Delhi, India . She is currently working in the domain of Gender and Migration where her focus is on understanding dependencies among the Indian H4 visa holders in the US.

Samuel Agblorti holds PhD in geography from the University of Calgary, Canada. He previously graduated with a master’s and bachelor’s degrees in population studies from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where he currently holds a faculty position. Samuel’s PhD thesis was on the nexus between refugees’ use of environmental resources, resultant environmental conflicts between refugees and host populations, and the feasibility of local integration of refugees in protracted situations as a durable solution for camp refugees in Ghana. He has been involved in migration research with a concentration on forced migration and the environment in refugee hosting communities for over a decade. Recently, his research interests focus on the analysis of host-refugee environmental conflicts, mainly from the perspective of power and economic considerations and the implications of such conflicts for the local integration of refugees in protracted situations using political ecology as an analytical framework; gender and development within the broader context of development theory and praxis. He has taught a number of courses at both the graduate (Academic Writing for Graduate Students, Population Movement and Qualitative Research Methods) and undergraduate levels (Migration and Development, Gender and Development and Refugee Studies). He has authored a number of publications including one policy paper for the UNHCR titled “Refugee integration in Ghana” in 2011 and recently a paper in Refugee Survey Quarterly titled “Conceptualising obstacles to local integration of refugees in Ghana” in 2019 (with Miriam Grant) and another (with Miriam Grant) "Revisiting the host-refugee environmental conflict debate: perspectives from Ghana's refugee camps', Canadian Journal of African Studies (2020). He has supervised four master’s and one PhD theses to completion and currently supervising three master’s students and four doctoral students.

Mariam Agha is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a teaching and research fellow at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from the American University in Cairo with high honors in Anthropology and a minor in Political Science. She then finished her Master's in Sociology at Ibn Haldun University. Her current research focuses on exiled artists living in Istanbul and the relationship between art, political affectivity, and subjectivity formation in exile through an ethnographic study of Egyptian and Syrian filmmakers and visual artists.

Postdoctoral researcher in Political Science at Uppsala University. My research interests mainly concern international migration and comparative migration policy. In my dissertation I focus specifically on variations in family immigration policy across countries.

A former journalist, anthropologist and development communications professional, currently researching impact of liberal immigration policies on driving immigration and social inclusion and integration of immigrants in receiving societies. (immigrants forced by conflict and climate change)

Ahmad Wali Ahmad-Yar is a PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), collaborating with the Interface Demography (ID) research group. He works on the Horizon 2020 project Enhanced Migration Measures from a Multidimensional Perspective (HumMingBird). His research focuses on international migration, the integration of migrants, migration data, theoretical and data gaps in migration research, EU policies on migration, and migrant integration policies at the local level. Previously, Ahmad Wali worked for almost three years at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels in the economic policy and GRID units.
Ahmad Wali holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a bachelor’s in International Relations from the al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Ahmad Wali has also worked as an interpreter for the UNHCR and as a Public Relations Officer for the Ariana Social Centre in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is originally from Afghanistan and has a keen personal interest in the history and current affairs of South and Central Asia.

Sohrab Ahmadian is a PhD graduate from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He completed his doctoral dissertation on the Kurdish diaspora patterns in Japan and their impact on the growth of political issues and identity formation in the context of Japanese society as well as the country of origin. He is currently pursuing his postdoctoral research as a research fellow at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is a specialist in Japanese-Kurdish Diaspora Studies and Middle Eastern Political Anthropology