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Simona Colucci is a PhD Student in Regional Planning and Public Policy in her second year at IUAV University of Venice. She graduated in Urban Planning and Policy Design from Politecnico di Milano in 2014. Since 2010 she has been working as a consultant on urban regeneration projects and participation processes both for public administration and third sector organisations. For three years she has been a project manager for a non-profit organisation and she coordinated a one-year research project, funded by J. P. Morgan, on practices supporting socio-economic integration of migrants in different European countries (www.same-project.com).
Her PhD research aims at figuring out the way in which Italian policies for the reception and integration of unaccompanied migrant youths shape their social ties and networks and how they affect their sense of belonging.

I am a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, Greece. My research focuses on the history of European integration and the history of migration in Europe since 1945.

My book, The History of the European Migration Regime (Routledge, 2018), explains the configuration that made free migration possible between the countries of the European Community, then Union. I have published scholarly articles in English, French or Spanish in The International Spectator, Afers Internacionals, Cold War History, Labor History, Le Mouvement social, Relations internationales, and the Journal of European Integration History. I have worked in the framework of a variety of collective research projects, funded by the French National Research Agency, the EU's research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020, and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK).

A graduate of the École normale supérieure in Paris (Ulm, PSL), I earned a European PhD summa cum laude in the History of Europe and International Relations from Sorbonne University, with a prize-winning dissertation titled "The Formation of the European Migration Regime, 1947–1992." I held successive academic and research positions at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California, Berkeley, the Vienna School of International Studies, and the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB).

I am a social science researcher working at the nexus of human geography, demography and sociology. Main topics of interest include older migrants and their well-being, regional differences in ageing, social networks and support, and social solidarity. In the past I have looked at the case of Bulgarian older adults, Polish migrants and their parents left behind and the social networks and support systems of Europeans. Currently I am mainly researching older migrants in the Netherlands.

I am a Full Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After a transition from research on water security and community-based monitoring, my work since 2018 has been focused on West African migration, specifically involuntary immobility, containment development, and most recently environmental migration.

PhD candidate in sociology at the NCCR LIVES, University of Geneva. Working at Parchemins’project : a prospective, mixed-methods study on the impact of a legal status regularization on undocumented migrants’ health and well-being; focusing on aspirations.

Carmine is the Legal Policy Analyst. He conducts international research on law and policy on migration, refugee integration and anti-discrimination at national and EU level. He also contributes to the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination.

Carmine holds a PhD in EU law at Middlesex University of London, a Master’s degree in Law and a Master of Arts in International Public Affairs from LUISS University of Rome. Carmine previously worked as policy and advocacy officer at the European Disability Forum.

I am a second year Techne funded PhD candidate examining the representation of death and displacement in Twenty-first century memorial artworks.

Twenty-first century mass deaths of people displaced by global economics and conflict in Lampedusa and along the U.S.-Mexico border have led to problematic intersections of art and memorial culture which have raised questions of commemoration practices, disposability and commodification.

Examining contrasting artworks (from figurative painting to installations using bodily remains and underwater sculptures), my thesis explores interdisciplinary questions of aesthetics and economics bound up in (memorial) art representing the deaths of economically-displaced individuals. I explore how patterns of exploitation and disposability rooted in neoliberalism - as well as in (post)colonial exploitation and conflict - cause and fuel the mass displacement of individuals, and examine how these patterns intersect with market forces involved in artistic attempts to respond to such deaths.

I interrogate the economic cycles which (memorial) artists more-or-less knowingly express and upon which the circulation and value of their artworks depend.
I highlight how these works bring into question relationships between different cultural conceptions of death and memorialisation and also raises concerns of how art representing deaths of displaced people may express a range of impetuses – from care of the individual to displacement of responsibility.

My project brings to the fore the problematics of bearing witness to the disposability of the individual in mass displacement; and the potential commodification of the displaced dead individual in the art market.