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Assistant Professor of Public Law, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez (Morocco).

PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography of the University of Hamburg, Germany. His lines of research focus on Colombian international migration, transnational migration, and transnational urban spaces.

Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-Barcelona). His main lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship, and immigration. He conducts theoretical and empirical research on migration and in the Mediterranean area. He is the Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration), and of the Master’s Program in Migration Studies at UPF . He is a member of the Board of Directors of the largest research network on Immigration in Europe IMISCOE and Chair the External Affairs Committee. Current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration) and EUMedMi Jean Monnet Network “Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies”.Additionally, he is a member of editorial boards of several academic journals and an occasional contributor to media and policy debates.

For more information about publications: https://www.upf.edu/web/ricard-zapata/

Girmachew received his Ph.D. degree in Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide with Dean’s Commendation. He was a Research Fellow at the Hugo Center for Population and Migration Research, University of Adelaide. His work focuses on migration, remittances, return, reintegration, diaspora engagement and transnational migrant networks. Independently or as part of a team, Girmachew was actively involved in providing consultancy services for various NGOs and International organizations. He has published on the cause and consequences of migration as well as transnational family ties.

I'm a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews. My research focuses on love and emotional experiences of the transnational Chinese community in Jamaica. I have recently completed my doctoral fieldwork in Kingston (Jan 2023 – Feb 2024). Currently I am the PhD representative of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA).

Layla Zibar is an Urban Researcher and has a Dual Doctoral degree in Architectural Engineering from Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) & KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on the intersections of Forced displacement, territories, spatial transformations, memory and questions of multi-scaler homes. In her PhD, she explored the long history of Kurd forced migration waves in the region and the spatial dimension of “displacements receiving sites” which appear to be (re) aggregating the overall urban landscape.