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Gulce Safak Ozdemir is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she has finished her Master in Migration Studies as well. She obtained a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University. Her dissertation contributes to theoretical and empirical discussions regarding irregular migrants in the cities. She is currently working in UNU-WIDER as a consultant for the "Addressing Group-based Inequalities" project. She also worked as a researcher in the Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration. She is also a member of the IMISCOE-PhD network.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökay Özerim is a member of the International Relations Department and the Director of the European Union Research Center at Yaşar University, Izmir. Currently, he has been holding the Jean Monnet Chair on migration in EU-Turkey relations. His main study fields are international migration, security and European integration process. He was awarded Chevening Scholarship of UK Government in 2010 and carried out a part of his researches in the Centre of Migration, Politics and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford as part of his PhD studies. In 2014, he has been at the Institute of European Studies in University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar. He has been also working in several European Union funded projects and delivering trainings on intercultural learning, youth participation, social responsibility and project management since 2005. He was awarded a Jean Monnet Module in 2016 and Jean Monnet Chair in 2019 by the European Commission.

Derya Ozkul is a postdoctoral researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She is currently working on refugee recognition regimes and the construction of vulnerability in refugee recognition and resettlement programs. Previously, Derya Ozkul worked as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Sydney, School of Social and Political Sciences. Her work involved social movements, diaspora activism, and transnationalism.

Assistant professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University;
Associate fellow, Institute for Policy Studies;
Scholar of migration, diaspora politics, and organized crime in Latin America;
Latin America policy advisor, Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign