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Architect (2001), PhD in Urban Planning and Public Policies (2012), since 2008 Giovanna Marconi is researcher at the SSIIM Unesco Chair on the ‘Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants’ based at the University Iuav of Venice. Her main research topics include: urban inclusion of international migrants, the governance of migration in small-medium sized cities, South-to-south international migration and transit migration, . She coordinated and collaborated on a number of international (action)research projects related to these issues and is author of several scientific articles and book chapters on the urban dimension of international migration.

F. Deniz Mardin is a medical doctor and she is currently working as a consultant both in “Refugee Health Policy” project conducted by ICAP Columbia University and in Medecine Sans Frontiere Project. She completed her PhD in Istanbul University, in Public Health Department. She received her MD in Bologna University with a thesis on New Reforms about Family Doctor´s System in Italy. She has diverse work experiences in health sector as primary health care, reproductive health, child and mother health and experiences in NGO projects as MSF’s psycho-social project for migrants and medical support for torture survivors in Turkish Human Rights Foundation. Her research interests are migration, access to health services, stigmatization toward migrants by health workers, contraceptive ways usage.

Ana Margheritis is Research Professor at CONICET/UTDT (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research/Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and co-Coordinator of the MIGCITPOL Standing Committee within IMISCOE. She previously worked and hold visitingpositions at highly ranked universities in the USA, Europe, and the UK. She is the author of four sole-authored books, including Migration Governance across Regions (Routledge 2016); editor of two other volumes (including Shaping Migration between Europe and Latin America (SAS Publications, 2018), and co-author of a seventh. Her peer-reviewed articles on transnational migration, international political economy and foreign policy appeared in a wide range of journals. She
has been consultant for EUDO at the European University Institute and private firms in higher education, as well as the UNDP and national research agencies in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Canada.

Stefania is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Employment Studies at the University of Manchester and a member of the Work and Equalities Institute. Her research interests are in the field of migration studies, labour sociology and industrial relations, with a particular focus on international and comparative perspectives. She has conducted extensive research on trade union strategies towards migrant and precarious workers and looked at trade unions role in promoting labour market regulation and social inclusion.

A media and migration scholar/digital anthropologist with expertise in the material and affective practices of connectivity among European and forced migrants. I am particularly interested in observing the role that media technologies play in shaping transnational identities and communities, but also how they contribute to the circulation of solidarity and support across and despite of borders.

Ivaylo Markov holds a doctoral degree in Ethnology from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethographic Museum – BAS in Sofia (since 2011, PhD thesis “Contemporary Labour Migrations of Albanians from Macedonia”). Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the same institute, where he directs the regular research seminar “Mobility. Migrations. Culture”. He also is a part-time lecturer at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski, where he reads the lecture course "Anthropology of Migrations" within the master’s curriculum of "Interpretative Anthropology".
His research interests are directed toward migration processes in the region of Southeastern Europe. The research projects he has been participating in have allowed him to work with different ethnic, cultural and social groups (some of them dispersed through the state borders) in several SEE countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia). His fieldwork and publications cover the following research topics: historical patterns of human mobility and their reflections on the contemporary migratory dynamics; role of financial and social remittances in socio-cultural transformation’s processes; transnationalism and coping with the live in-between; transnational family-kin relationships, inter-personal conflicts and decision-making issues of migration; memory and heritage in migration, etc.

Dr. Ihor Markov is the Senior Researcher at the Department of the Social Antropology of the Institute of Ethnology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Laboratory for Social Research in Lviv. He has a PhD in ethnology. The areas of expertise include social dynamics and identities, social communication, political process, transnational and global migration.