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Dr Kristine Aquino is a sociologist and urban ethnographer. Her research is broadly concerned with global Filipino migration, race and racism in everyday life, diversity in Australian and Asian cities, and migrant practices of transnationalism. Her first book 'Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora' (2018) explores Filipino migration to Australia and grounds larger questions about race, citizenship, nationhood and anti-racism in lived experiences.Kristine's current work examines the intersection between leisure practices and urban place-making in the lives of male Filipino migrant workers in Singapore.

Multilingual and multicultural human geographer specialized in matters of citizenship, mobility and, territoriality in the outskirts of labour markets within politically complex supranational contexts. Exploring the interlinks between everyday geopolitics and social stratification from a feminist geographical perspective. Extensive fieldwork experience.

Solon Ardittis is Chairman and Managing Director of Eurasylum Ltd. He has over 30 years of experience in research, evaluation and policy development in the fields of immigration, asylum, employment policy and education in Europe and internationally. He has directed or contributed to over 100 research, evaluation and programme management assignments in over 50 countries, on behalf of various Directorates-General of the European Commission (DG Migration & Home Affairs, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, DG International Cooperation and Development, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, DG Regional Policy, DG Research and Innovation, DG Environment, DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, and the Secretariat General), the European Parliament, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Frontex, national government authorities, international organisations (ILO, UNDP, IOM, NATO) and academia. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) of the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of over 100 publications on migration and asylum policy, as well as on terrorism, and a regular commentator on current EU migrant/refugee policy developments in a wide range of European and US media. He is also the founder and co-editor of Migration Policy Practice, a bimonthly journal directed at senior officials in Government, EU institutions and international organisations published jointly with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Dr Nat Arias obtained their PhD in International Development from the School of Global Studies in November 2023. Their thesis explores how race, gender and border regulation contribute to new forms of surveillance and involuntary displacement for refugee and undocumented migrant women and trans people within humanitarian and social welfare systems in Spain. Their research conceptually bridges postcolonial feminism, critical humanitarian, the colonialities of migration, and trans/queer studies with participatory research methods and activist ethnographies.

A former McNair Scholar (Rutgers U. Class of 2015), Nat contributed to the early career research community at Sussex by supporting engagement and outreach for doctoral researchers through their SAGE Research Hive Scholarship (2021 - 2022).
During their previous work as a public health research consultant, they applied various participatory qualitative research methods to support a range of health and social justice interventions in sexual and reproductive health, post-disaster relief, LGBT+ rights, and barriers to care for disabled migrants. Nat developed and refined several qualitative and quantitative program monitoring and evaluation instruments for NGOs, US state and federal health departments, and international aid organisations. They are a contributing author for the 'Programme Evaluation Technical Report WeSpeakNYC' policy report for the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs in 2018.

Nat is a skilled mixed-methods programme evaluation expert. They have the following technical research skills: Technical Report Writing, Participatory Action Research, Critical Ethnographies, Developing monitoring systems for Public Health and NGO Program Monitoring tools, and creating public health needs assessments.

Dr Arias is highly skilled with the following digital analysis software: NVIVO, MAXQDA, and SPSS for qualitative research.

Complementary to their ongoing doctoral research project, Nat holds the following positions in their research communities:

Leadership Roles:
- Steering committee member, Centre for Advanced International Theory ('CAIT') from 2021-2023
Find out more about CAIT by visiting: www.sussex.ac.uk/cait/

- Sussex Research Hive Scholar 2021-20222
Find out more about Sussex Hive Scholars by visiting: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/research/hive

Undergraduate TEACHING experience
Nat is the Seminar Lead for the following undergraduate modules:
'Gender and Development: Theory, Concepts and Issues' (Spring 2021 - Spring 2024) for the Department of International Development.
'Social Change, Culture and Development' - Seminar Lead Autumn 2023 for the Department of International Development.

A PhD. Candidate at Lahore School of Economics and have been a part of their faculty since 2008, in the department of Economics. My research interests lie in the areas of migration, trade, women empowerment, gender disparities in schooling outcomes and factors affecting child’s health.

addiction and forced migration issues.
MSw Social Worker
& PhD Student at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa