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Rahime Özgün Kehya (PhD) is an academic at Kafkas University in the Department of Cinema and Television. Her research focuses on migration, gender, integration, cultural diversity and otherness in film and media studies. She conducted a research project at the Institute of Media Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany. She has worked for multinational companies and directed and co-produced several short films. She has received research and merit scholarships from DAAD in Germany and TUBITAK in Turkey.

Themrise N Khan is an Independent development professional with over 20 years of experience in international development, social policy (developing countries) and global migration. She has worked with several bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, and including, but not limited to; DFID UK, Global Affairs Canada, the International Labour Organization, the UN Agency for Migration, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development and the World Bank Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD).

Her main expertise lies in leading qualitative thematic and policy research studies. She has published both academically and as a research practitioner, including for the University of Ottawa Press and the ILO, on issues ranging from development aid intervention in fragile states, to female labour migration in Pakistan. Her interest in migration lies in, among other areas, understanding transnational citizenship, South-South migration regimes and encouraging scholarship in migration research and policy by the South, for the South. She has recently begun a career as an emerging academic teaching international development and migration at Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Sandra King-Savic is an international post-doctoral researcher at tUniversity of St. Gallen. She received her Ph.D. in Organization and Culture (DOC) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in February 2019. King-Savić is a lecturer on Migration and cultural studies at the University of St. Gallen, and volunteered as a human rights educator for Amnesty International. She conducted research for the Foreign Military Studies Office in the U.S. before receiving a Swiss National Foundation scholarship for her dissertation on the transversal relationship between migration and informal markets, and received various scholarships, including the Foreign Language and Area Studies and the A&S Study Abroad scholarship from the University of Kansas (KU) and the University of Wyoming (UWYO), where she received her M.A. and B.A. respectively.

My research has focused on different migration phenomena, including highly skilled, intra-European migration, free movement policies, Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland, migration decision-making and the role of imagination and mental time travel in the migration process, as well as tourism and mobility. At the moment I study the situation of Nordic migrants living in London during the Brexit process. In addition, I am an expert in research finance and project planning.

Gizem KOLBAŞI MUYAN is working at the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities as an expert since 2011. She gave lectures on iimmigrant integration and diaspora studies at the Departments of International Relations and Sociology, METU as a guest lecturers between 2018-2020. She had her Ph.D. at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2017 with her thesis titled “Interactions between Family Reunification and Integration: Marriages of Second Generation Turkish Dutch from Turkey”. She received her bachelors in International Relations from METU and had her master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization at the University of Malta, Faculty of Law with the European Commission scholarship. Her main areas of interest are immigrant integration, family reunification, diaspora studies, transnationalism, citizenship, EU law, Turkey-EU Assocation Law, EU migration policy, governance of migration at the national and international level, human rights law, interdisciplinary researches and qualitative research methods.