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A researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. An Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Holds a PhD in Comparative Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. A co-editor of “The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics”, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030120917

Expertise in political sociology, socio-legal studies, migration and citizenship with strong skills in qualitative methods and experience in quantitative research. Holds PhD in the Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies Program and Graduate Certificate in Law and Society Studies at the University of Washington. Currently, a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Public Administration and Sociology.

Laavanya Kathiravelu is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research is at the intersections of international migration, race and ethnic studies and contemporary urban diversity, particularly in Asia and the Persian Gulf. Her first book was Migrant Dubai (Palgrave, 2016), which explored experiences of low wage migrant workers in the UAE. She has also published widely on issues of race, inequality and migration in Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She was also a Fung Fellow at Princeton University between 2015-16. In 2019, she was recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (SSHRF) and recognised as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in the area of academic leadership. Laavanya is board member of migrant welfare organisation, HOME as well as civil society group AWARE, whose aim is to advance gender equality. She comments regularly on public forums and through op-eds on issues of migration, race and diversity in Singapore. In 2022, she was a Fulbright Scholar based at the City University of New York (CUNY)

Caitlin Katsiaficas is a policy analyst in ICMPD’s Policy Unit, where her recent research focuses on international protection, talent attraction, and integration. Prior to joining ICMPD, she held positions at the Migration Policy Institute, World Bank, International Rescue Committee, and George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, in addition to internships with local and national refugee resettlement organisations in the United States. Caitlin holds an MA and BA in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where her studies focused on conflict, migration, and development.

Beth Katz is a Politics and International Relations PhD candidate and researcher at the University of Edinburgh. She researches UK and US immigrant inclusion efforts during the Brexit and Trump eras. This builds on her 10+ years of experience as founder/executive director of a social inclusion NGO and her background as a community organiser. Beth also has served as an adjunct professor in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University and in the Colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a Master of Public Policy and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor Degree in Education from Creighton University. While pursuing her PhD, Beth has worked as a research assistant on several projects, most recently contributing to a policy paper on family migration for the Scottish Government's Expert Advisory Group (EAG) on Migration and Population.

Dr. Atinder Pal Kaur is working as Assistant Professor (Sociology) in the Dept. of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. She has completed her Ph.D. (2018) from the Department of Sociology, Panjab University Chandigarh. She has completed her M.A in sociology from the Department of Sociology, Panjab University Chandigarh. She Graduated with Sociology and Political Science Honours from the Department of Social Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She has already published papers in the field of Migration, Gender, and development. She has presented a paper on Migration and Gender Equality in the International Institute of Social Sciences 2017 in Hague, The Netherlands. She has done Project with UNFPA for six months, designation as Research Officer; she attended two workshops on Research Methodology, one with UN¬FPA. She also attended a Summer Program at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 2013, Mumbai. She published a paper entitled “International migration and Impact of remittances on left behind wives: a study of Doaba region of Punjab” (2019) in SI Rajan and Neetha N (eds) Migration, Gender and Care Economy. 103-122, Routledge London. And also “Migration and Cultural Challenges through a gender lens: Punjabi Transnationalism in Doaba Region (Punjab)” (2019). Research Monograph Series GRFDT. 5(4), 4-13. She is also a member of scientific Societies that include “Global research forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism” and Indian Society for agricultural development and Policy. Recently join IMESOC. Her research interest includes International and Internal Migration studies, Gender and Development, Cul¬tural and Transnational Diaspora studies, Social Change and Rural Society. Email: atinderbains@gmail.com.

Hanne Cecilie Kavli is a senior researcher and research director at Fafo with immigration and integration as her special area. She has worked extensively on issues related to welfare and integration policy, family practices and gender equality in immigrant families, how attitudes and values ​​influence women's professional participation and how the organization of welfare states and labor markets influence women's motivation and opportunity to participate in working life. She is currenty also involved in several research projects on different welfarestates influence the development of institutional and social trust among refugees. She has broad experience in obtaining, using and analyzing both qualitative interviews, surveys and register data.

Kavli has led a large number of research projects at Fafo and has conducted extensive editorial work. She also conducts extensive dissemination work by giving invited lectures, writing op-eds and arranging seminars and conferences.

Nilay is a post-doctoral researcher at Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoç) and a lecturer in the Sociology Department of Koç University. She holds a dual doctorate degree from Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology Program at University of Kent (UK) and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). Prior to her current position, she has worked as post-doctoral researcher at Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her research interests lie in sociology of law, sociology of human rights, migration and criminology. She has recently been involved in two research projects; one on migration-development nexus (MIGNEX), another on advancing alternative migration governance (ADMIGOV). Besides, she conducts research on “NGO’s in Turkey in the midst of the State, the UN, the EU, and Donors” with the seed-fund granted by Koç University. She is the Engaged Research Officer at UNIC for Engaged Research (UNIC4ER) as part of the UNIC European University Consortium.

Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He is currently European Research Council Advanced Grant holder (ERC AdG, 2019-2024). He received his PhD and MA degrees at the University of Warwick, England. Kaya was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, and adjunct lecturer at the New York University, Florence in 2016-2017. He previously worked and taught at the European University Viadrina as Aziz Nesin Chair in 2013, and at Malmö University, Sweden as the Willy Brandt Chair in 2011. He is specialised on European identities, Euro-Turks in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, Circassian diaspora in Turkey, the construction and articulation of modern transnational identities, refugee studies in Turkey, conventional and nonconventional forms of political participation in Turkey, and the rise of populist movements in the EU. Kaya is recently working on a manuscript about the populist political style in Europe. His forthcoming manuscript is Populism and Heritage in Europe. Lost in Diversity and Unity (London: Routledge). His fortcoming edited volume is Memory in European Populism (London: Routledge, with Chiara de Cesari). Some of his books are Turkish Origin Migrants and their Descendants: Hyphenated Identities in Transnational Space (Palgrave, 2018), Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey (London: Palgrave, 2013); Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (London: Palgrave, 2012); Contemporary Migrations in Turkey: Integration or Return (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2015, in Turkish, co-edited with Murat Erdoğan), Belgian-Turks, Brussels: King Baudouin Foundation, 2008, co-written with Ferhat Kentel), Euro-Turks: A Bridge or a Breach between Turkey and the EU (Brussels: CEPS Publications, 2005, co-written with Ferhat Kentel, Turkish version by Bilgi University); wrote another book titled Sicher in Kreuzberg: Constructing Diasporas, published in two languages, English (Bielefeld: Transkript verlag, 2001) and Turkish (Istanbul: Büke Yayınları, 2000). He also translated Ethnic Groups and Boundaries by Fredrik Barth and Citizenship and Social Classes by T. H. Marshall and Tom Bottomore to Turkish language. He also edited several books on migration, integration, citizenship, and diasporas. Kaya’s publications have been translated to several languages such as French, German, Japanese, Italian, Arabic and Dutch. Kaya was actively participated involved in FP7 projects, and now he is involved in two different Horizon 2020 research projects on populism and Turkey-EU relations. Kaya received Turkish Social Science Association Prize in 2003; Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA-GEBİP) Prize in 2005; Sedat Simavi Research Prize in 2005; Euroactiv-Turkey European Prize in 2008, the Prize for the best Text Book given by TÜBA; and also the Prize for excellence in teaching at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University in 2013 and 2017.