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Nermin Oruc holds PhD degree in Economics from Staffordshire University, UK. He has 8 years of teaching experience from local universities, where he taught Econometrics, Research Methods, Labour Economic and Economic Development, as well as more than 10 years of experience in leading and participating in research projects. He was also employed as a consultant on a number of projects with World Bank, IOM, UNDP, and other organisations. His research interests include migration, labour market analysis, poverty and inequality. He was awarded teaching fellowship by the CERGE-EI Prague for the period 2012-2015 and InGRID visiting fellowship to ISER, University of Essex. Nermin is currently Coordinator of the Western Balkans Migration Network and leader of the national team for BiHMOD, a micro-simulation model for tax and benefits policies in BiH, based on EUROMOD.

Laura Oso is Full Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) at the Faculty of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña. She is the coordinator of ESOMI (Societies in Movement Research Team). Her research has focused on the study of gender and migration, the integration of female immigrants into the labour market (domestic service, sexual work, ethnic entrepreneurship), transnational families, development and intergenerational relations.

She is Vice-president for International Affairs of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) and Member of the Executive Committee at the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Other studies are also remarkable among her research lines, such as the Spanish emigration in France (female domestic workers and female caretakers, second generation) and the analysis of migrations from the perspective of intergenerational strategies and trajectories for social mobility. She equally works on the gender nexus linking gender, migration and development.
She partakes in competitive International Research Networks. She is an associated member since 2007 of the IMISCOE- International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion network, being also a member since 2013 of its Board of Directors. She es also a member of the Board of the RN27 - Regional Network Southern European Societies at the European Sociological Association. She has also been a member of COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Postpol (IS1209) “Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance”(2013-2017). She has taken part of European projects (H2020-Welcoming Spaces- 870952, H2020- Cross Migration- 770121, Equal Convive Mais”-European Social Fund, SERD-2002-00119-European Commission, Research Directorate General, H2020-Proposal number : 691004-2015-2019) and INCASI ( International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities) H2020-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE). Project Number: 691004.

Ismail Oubad is a Doctoral Researcher within the ERC AdG SOLROUTES Project (Solidarities and Migrants' Routes Across Europe at Large), hosted by the University of Genoa. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies of the University of Liège. Currently his research interest and PhD thesis focus on the solidarity actions and support networks to dwelling and migrants’ border transgression within and across the Belgian borders, adopting ethnographic methods. Previously, Ismail has conducted research on, inter alia, the quest for legalization of Sub-Saharan protection seekers within the asylum determination procedures in Italy.

Mohammed Ouhemmou, an assistant professor Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco. My
fields of interest include public policy analysis, migration and internationalization policies. My
research investigates the link between foreign policy and the politics of mobility. In my Ph.D. thesis I examined the nexus between scholarships granted to sub- Saharan students in Morocco and the country’s desire to expand its influence, soft power, and build friendly links with African states. I am currently researching operations of migrant displacement and dispersal in Northern Morocco.

Derya Ozkul is a postdoctoral researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She is currently working on refugee recognition regimes and the construction of vulnerability in refugee recognition and resettlement programs. Previously, Derya Ozkul worked as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Sydney, School of Social and Political Sciences. Her work involved social movements, diaspora activism, and transnationalism.

Assistant professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University;
Associate fellow, Institute for Policy Studies;
Scholar of migration, diaspora politics, and organized crime in Latin America;
Latin America policy advisor, Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign