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Lan Anh Hoang is Associate Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. She received her MA and PhD in Development Studies from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, Singapore, before joining the University of Melbourne in January 2011. Lan was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2013-2014.

Her research has been published in many prestigious journals such as Gender and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, Global Networks, Population, Space and Place, Geoforum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Asian Studies Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is author of ‘Vietnamese migrants in Russia: mobility in times of uncertainty’ (Amsterdam University Press 2020) and co-editor of ‘Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances, and the Changing Family in Asia' (2015) and ‘Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia’ (2019).

Lan’s current project examines brokerage and migrant networks in the Vietnam-Australia migration corridor. She is Regional Editor (Mainland Southeast Asia) of Asian Studies Review, Thematic Editor (Migration) of Development in Practice, and Associate Editor of Springer's Global Vietnam book series. Lan co-edited the Palgrave Macmillan book series 'Anthropology, Change, and Development' from 2013 to 2021 and is currently sitting on the International Advisory Board of Feminist Theory. She was a development worker in Vietnam before entering academia.

With over twenty years’ experience in international migration policy, communications, public affairs and lobbying, Glen is the founder of the think tank Free Trade Europa, which focuses on promoting free trade, openness and the rule of law within the European Union and internationally. Glen also leads a stakeholder initiative on the platform economy, future of work and migration in the Nordics. Glen is also the host of "The New Gig": a podcast on - and for - migrants and the dynamic workforce of today.

Glen was previously responsible for the Nordics, Baltics and Central & Eastern Europe within an international communications agency. Prior to this he worked for the European institutions as well as governments, blue-chip international companies, start-ups and NGOs as a lobbyist, strategist and communications advisor.

Glen was also the Secretary General of a European trade association for five years. Today, Glen is a respected commentator on European affairs, as well as a frequent presenter, moderator and panellist at European policy events. Glen is also a trainer and coach on technology, migration, labour force, transport and sustainability policy as well as communications techniques for the public and private sectors.

Nicole is a postdoctoral researcher at SPAIS, University of Bristol, working with Prof. Katharine Charsley and Dr Helena Wray (University of Exeter) on the ESRC-funded Research Project: 'UK-EU couples after Brexit: Migrantization and the UK family immigration regime' (2023-2026).

Nicole was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Life & Environmental Sciences, working with Prof. Nick Gill on ASYFAIR (2017 - 2022) – a project investigating asylum appeal courts in Europe. Nicole was the lead researcher of the project, and - as a German native speaker - responsible for conducting research in Germany and Austria. See www.asyfair.com.

Nicole completed her PhD in Anthropology Research at Brunel University London in 2017, conducting extensive ethnographic fieldwork with resettled refugees in the UK, focusing on community development and the practice/policy gap. Her MRes studies (Brunel University London, 2010) were concerned with alternative development strategies and education in South Asia, as well as utilizing qualitative research methods to measure and operationalize policy and development programmes. During her previous studies (BSc and DipHE), Nicole conducted research in migration, education and linguistics.

Research Associate at the Unviersity of Cologne, PhD student at the University of Geneva and within the nccr - on the move (https://nccr-onthemove.ch/).
My research focuses on migration governance and law, on the links between migration and trade policy, and on EU politics and policies on migration. I am also interested in the framing of human movement as "migration" or "mobility" and discoursive (in)visibilities in migration and migration studies.

Gerhard is a political anthropologist focussing on refugee and immigration studies and policy, spiritual and existential security as well as religion and the state.
He is co-editor of a volume on human security and Australian foreign policy published by Allen and Unwin as well as one on Urban refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy, published by Routledge.

Jenna Holliday is a migration, labour rights and gender specialist. Jenna consults extensively for UN and international organisations, in particular the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UN Women, providing expert support on integrating gender and labour perspectives into migration policy. Her work is predominantly focused on the Asia region. She is a member of the Expert Working Group for Addressing Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration and has written widely on the extent to which development agendas respond to women migrant workers including the recently published International Journal of Law in Context article titled “Incongruous Objectives- Endeavouring to Realise Women Migrant Workers’ Rights through the Global Development Agendas".

Sophie Hölscher is a PhD student at the Department of Educational Psychology - Socialisation and Culture at the University of Halle. Her research focuses on how to promote relatedness and autonomy in the school context, as well as it's interaction with ethnic and national identity.

PhD student in Political Science,
IRISSO CNRS UMR 7170,
Université Paris Dauphine, PSL* Research University.