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Elzbieta Opilowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Head of the Center for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the University of Wrocław and associate member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies/European University Viadrina. Her main expertise is in borderlands studies, memory cultures, European integration and German-Polish relations. Guest Professorship at the UniGr-Center for Border Studies, University of Luxembourg (2021) and at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies (2020/2021). She has been a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/European University Institute (October 2022), Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (July-August 2022), Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig and Centre for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the European University Viadrina. She has been granted scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Alfred Toepfer F.V.S. Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Currently she is co-leading three research projects LYMAS: Life strategies of Young Labour Migrants in Ageing Societies, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation; Horizon Europe International Project: B-SHAPES: Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies; Resilience of cross-border cooperation in Europe – a comparative analysis of German-Polish and German-French borderlands, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation.

Jeremaiah teaches research methods at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila. He does migration research for a nonprofit thinktank --the Institute for Migration and Development Issues (IMDI)-- as well as for UST. He also does migration journalism.

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University, Turkey. I am also a researcher at the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) based in Athens. My research focuses on border security and migration in the EU while assessing its impact on transit countries, most notably Turkey in the post-Arab Spring period.

I am a senior student in the Department of Law at Turkish-German University. So far, I have been interested primarily in politics, migration, memory, justice, urban history, and oral history in some prestigious civil societies such as Aydın Dogan Foundation, Beraberce, and Karakutu. I attended courses and training at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Friedrich Ebert, and DVV International. In the Summer of 2022, I completed "RSC Pathways" at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Center with distinction. I've focused on immigration, statelessness, and international law in recent years. I speak German, Kurdish, Turkish, and English.

Professor of media, communications and film. Teaching peace journalism, cultural diversity and communication, crisis and conflict reporting, communicating sustainable development goals. Focusing on media coverage of refugees and vulnerable groups.

Meghann Ormond is Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands. She's deeply invested in and concerned with how differently-mobile people's roots, rights and vulnerabilities are recognised and included in the places they visit and in which they live. Her research focuses mainly on how shifting visions and practices of citizenship and belonging transform transnational mobility, heritage, health and care relationships and practices.