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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.

Senior Assistant Professor in Demography at the University of Bologna & head of the Statistic Unit of ISMU Foundation in Milan, Italy. Associate Editor of BMC Public Health. Primary research interests: Migration Studies, Refugee Studies, Female Genital Mutilations, Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Fertility.

Nermin Oruc holds PhD degree in Economics from Staffordshire University, UK. He has 8 years of teaching experience from local universities, where he taught Econometrics, Research Methods, Labour Economic and Economic Development, as well as more than 10 years of experience in leading and participating in research projects. He was also employed as a consultant on a number of projects with World Bank, IOM, UNDP, and other organisations. His research interests include migration, labour market analysis, poverty and inequality. He was awarded teaching fellowship by the CERGE-EI Prague for the period 2012-2015 and InGRID visiting fellowship to ISER, University of Essex. Nermin is currently Coordinator of the Western Balkans Migration Network and leader of the national team for BiHMOD, a micro-simulation model for tax and benefits policies in BiH, based on EUROMOD.

Mathis Osburg is a Research and Development Specialist at the European Migration Network (EMN) at the University of Luxembourg. Previously, Mathis worked in the Horizon2020 project MIMY (EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions), which examines the integration of young vulnerable migrants across nine European countries. Before joining the University of Luxembourg, Mathis was a researcher in the MADE project (Migration as Development) at the International Migration Institute (University of Amsterdam); and a research assistant at the CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) in Cayenne (French Guiana). Mathis also worked with various NGOs in the field of forced migration in Turkey, Serbia, Mexico and Belgium. He speaks English, French, German, Turkish and intermediate Spanish. Mathis holds a BA in Political Science from the University Lumière Lyon II and an MSc (Cum Laude) in Sociology with a specialisation in Migration and Ethnic Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His research interests focus on the drivers of human migration, the relation between developmental processes and migratory behaviour, the effect and efficiency of migration policies, and the integration of migrants in host societies.