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Senior Lecturer in Health & Social Policy, University of Glasgow. Alistair's research interests lie at the intersection of migration and ageing, and span topics such as health and care, inter-generational relations, end-of-life issues, religiosity, return and circular migration. His books include 'Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return' and 'Handbook of Migration and Ageing' (co-edited with Sandra Torres). His PhD (2012) was awarded IMISCOE's Maria Baganha Prize.

Ayesha Hussain is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Research Associate at Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies at University of Bonn. Her research project is entitled "Asymmetrical dependencies among Pakistani migrants in Italy's informal labour sector: The role of Social Capital". She analyses the dependencies within the social networks, at the micro and meso level structures of migration including families, ethnic networks and diasporas focusing on the mobilisation of social capital of networks particularly within the informal labour sector in Italy. 

Derek Hutcheson is Professor in Political Science and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly relating to the voting rights of mobile EU citizens and their participation in local and European Parliament elections. He has been active in several funded projects on the subject of mobile EU citizens, which have partly informed new directives on the cross-border voting rights for mobile EU citizens. Outside of the sphere of migration, he has also published extensively on electoral politics more broadly, especially in the post-Soviet region.

I hold a PhD degree in Health Sciences at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. I have work experience with both qualitative and quantitative data sources and I have expertise in field of migrant health.

I am an ESRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, exploring the legal geographies of immigration law. Using ethnographies of tribunal hearings and interviews with their key actors, I examine the impact of space and technology on access to justice in immigration bail hearings.

Marita Ibañez Sandoval is a researcher and lecturer on Visual Studies. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, and based in Ibaraki, Japan. Currently pursuing doctoral studies in Photomedia at the Doctoral Program in Art at the University of Tsukuba. She received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and a master's in science degree in Kansei Design from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Ibañez is a Monbukagakusho Scholar of the Japanese Government, researching landscape, migration, and Latin American communities in Japan. Lecturer with more than a decade of experience at Universities in Peru and Japan. Her work has been presented in different cities in Latin America, Europe, the USA, Korea, and Japan. Ibañez is part of the Time Lab/McLeod Lab research group.