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Dr Muhidin is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia. He is a demographer by training from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has actively been working on the study of migration/population mobility issues and its consequences in different settings such as Asia (Indonesia and Bangladesh), West Africa (Burkina Faso and Ghana) and Australia. In addition, he has also involved in researches related with health and population dynamics. Dr Muhidin was one of the contributors to the background research papers for the 2009 Human Development Reports, UNDP.

Dr Muhidin is also the Executive Board member of the Indonesian Diaspora Network (IDN) Global, which facilitates and empowers the voice of Indonesian diaspora communities through its current 60 national and local chapters and the number is progressively expanding.

I am a senior researcher at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. My research focusses on international migration and urban developments and, more broadly, on the interrelation of materiality and sociality in late modern societies. I habilitated at the Department of Geography, University of Bremen, Germany, in 2019 (venia legendi “Humangeographie”) and obtained my PhD at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2013. In 2017, I was a Visiting Academic at the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. My most recent book is on the nexus of migration, materility and identity ("Migration, Materialität und Identität. Verortungen zwischen Hier und Dort", published in German in 2020, Steiner Verlag).

Professor of Political Sociology

Viola Müller is a social historian who researches themes like slavery, labor, race, illegality, mobility, resistance, and urban history through the lens of migration studies.

Viola is a lecturer in Economic and Social History at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She received her PhD in 2020 from Leiden University with a dissertation on fugitive slaves in cities of the nineteenth-century US South. She was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2019-2020). She holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Economics from University of Cologne (2012) and a MA in History of Migration and Global Interdependence from Leiden University (2015).

I'm a cultural studies researcher using methods of cultural anthropology. My current research explores amateur music ensembles in activist spaces and discourses on belonging, integration, and citizenship. During fieldwork, I have used audio, video and mapping techniques to record different types of ethnographic data and conducted qualitative social media discourse analyses. My overall research interest is understanding the role, use, and voice of performance in transnational activism on rights.

Lea Müller-Funk is currently a Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, where her research focuses on migration aspirations and drivers in (forced) migration, migration and refugee governance, and diaspora politics with a geographical focus on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She earned a joint PhD in Comparative Politics and Arabic Studies (summa cum laude) from the Centre des Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris and the Department for Near Eastern Studies at Vienna University in 2016. Methodologically, she applies different approaches including in-depth and life history interviews, survey research, mixed methods, content analysis, and online ethnography.

Before her PhD, she was a trainee at the Department of the European Council and the Council of the European Union at the Austrian Foreign Ministry (2010-2011). She attended Vienna University (BA in Political Science, 2009; Magister in Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2010), the Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales in Paris (2007/2008), and Sciences Po Paris (MA in Comparative Politics / Middle East and Muslim World, 2010). Lea has held research affiliations to the Institut français du Proche-Orient Beirut (2018), the Migration Reseach Center at Koç University (2018), Nuffield College (2017), the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (2012) and the American University Beirut (2009).

I am lecturer in Sociology with an interest in how states categorise and treat migrant populations.