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Magali N. Alloatti is a consultant for IOM Brazil since 2022 and has provided support for the UNDP desk in New York (2023). She worked as an Officer for Political Relations at Global Affairs Canada (2022) and it has been an associated researcher at the State Observatory for Migrations (SC) since 2013. She was postdoctoral fellow CAPES DAAD at Hamburg University (2019-2020) and previously a postdoctoral fellow at the State Observatory for Migrations in Santa Catarina at the Laboratory for Gender and Family relations (UDESC) (2018-2019). Her work has been published at Gender, Work & Organization, Sociologia Política, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Andvances in Gender Research, among others. She has recently joined the Standing Committee Immigration, Immigrants and Labour Markets in Europe (IMISCOE)
She was invited as an expert panelist by the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (Florence) (2020); also as an international lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University (2020), an as International Guest Professor at the sociology department in Bielefeld University teaching on international migration, ethnic economy, gender, race and ethnicity (2017). Has been invited to conferences organized by the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) (2018,2021, 2022) and at the BGHS in Bielefeld. She was also a scholarship recepient from Women Deliver as a gender advocate participating at the conference in Vancouver in 2019.
She graduated in sociology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, in 2010; got her master’s degree in 2013 and her PhD in sociology in 2017, both at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Her PhD was obtain in collaboration with University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at the Sociology Department and The Center for the Study of International Migration during 2015- 2016 with a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

I am an Assistant Professor in cultural anthropology and development sociology at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I am also affiliated with Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), as a visiting Scholar in Residence at the School of Foreign Service (SFS). My work focuses on migration and citizenship regimes, the anthropology of development, and the political economy of race and class in the Gulf Arab states, with a particular focus on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) & Saudi Arabia.

I hold a joint PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium).

My work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies; Mobilities; Middle East Critique; Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration; and the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

Contact: Jaafar.alloul@ntu.edu.sg

Dr Sajida Zareen Ally is Lecturer in Anthropology and Global Health at the University of Bristol and a Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of social, medical and political anthropology with a focus on South Asian migration to the Arab Gulf, and global public health. Sajida is interested in the phenomenological and socio-cultural dimensions of migrant illness/wellness experience, migrants’ health-related entitlements, and the transnational governance of labour migration and healthcare, particularly in Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Her current research is supported by REALM (Research & Empirical Analysis of Labour Migration) – a project led by INCITE, Columbia University and funded by New York Univeristy-Abu Dhabi.

Shaddin Almasri is a Jordanian-American PhD candidate based in Krems, Austria. Her research interests are in aid policy, development, and refugee labor integration with a regional focus on the Middle East. Previously, she held research and advocacy roles at Oxfam in Jordan and at the WANA Institute, a local Jordanian thinktank. She holds an MSc Migration, Mobility and Development from SOAS, University of London and a BA Economics from the American University of Sharjah. She has held a variety of roles in short term research projects spanning topics such as climate migration, refugee discrimination, stratification in labor migration policy and refugee access to self-reliance mechanisms. .She is currently a PhD Migration Studies candidate at Danube University Krems, where she is conducting research on nationality-based discrimination in refugee aid and inclusion policies across Jordan, Turkey and Ethiopia.

Silvia Almenara Niebla works as postdoctoral researcher at Communication Studies Department (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). She works on the ERC project Reel Borders lead by prof. Kevin Smets. She obtained her PhD in gender and migration studies (Universidad de La Laguna, 2020, extraordinary doctoral prize) with a study on transnational belonging and media practices among Sahrawi refugees from a gender perspective. She is vice-chair of the Diaspora, Migration and the Media section of ECREA.

Faime Alpagu studied Sociology in Istanbul and Vienna. Her dissertation project was funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and she received the 2016 Dissertation Award for Research on Migration from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research has been further supported by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften and City of Vienna.

Jill Alpes is a legal anthropologist working on migration from the perspectives of aspiring and deported migrants in the Global South. Based at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University, her current project looks at the work of lawyers and activists in producing and submitting evidence on pushbacks to the European Court of Human Rights. Jill is the author of "Abroad at any cost: Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa" and has published widely in the Journal of Refugee Studies, JEMS, REMI, PoLAR, Africa, Social and Legal Studies and Autrepart.

Post-doctoral research fellow. School of Law. University of Milan-Bicocca. Italy
PhD in Legal Sciences. Law and Pluralism. School of Law . University of Milan-Bicocca. Italy
PhD in Foundation of Jurisprudence. University of Jordan. Jordan