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Dulo is an academic based in Moi University Kenya. His research is around issues of migration and displacement in East Africa. He looks at the interface between policy and practice in refugee protection, development induced displacement. He has several publications on migration issues. Currently he is the team leader of Kenya Geographic working Group on Local Refugee Research Network (a consortium of researchers and practitioners)

Karen has been researching migration, mainly using ethnographic methods, since the early 1990s. Starting with British emigration to Spain, she wrote the British on the Costa del Sol in 2000 (Routledge). She then spent several years establishing the field of lifestyle migration, and is especially known for the edited volume Lifestyle Migration: relations experiences and expectations (Ashgate 2009, ed with M. Benson). Later she has focused on employing sociological theory for broader understandings of migration processes. This work has been published in international Migration and Social Theory, (Palgrave 2012), and Lifestyle Migration and Colonial traces in Malaysia and Panama (Palgrave 2018, with M. Benson).

Karen’s main contribution to migration studies has been to advocate the telling of practice stories to elucidate the structural and agentic aspects of migration processes and how these interrelate over time. This has informed much of her work, including the recently published International Labour migration to Europe’s Rural Regions (Routledge 2021, ed with J.F. Rye).

Research Fellow, Northumbria University (UK), University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

I am a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, with a specialisation in Migration Studies. My research interests include return migration, (re)integration, transnationalism and community dynamics. I am an experienced migration researcher with a focus on Afghanistan - including fieldwork with Afghan migrants, refugees and returnees in Afghanistan, India, UK, Norway and the USA.