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Apostolos G Papadopoulos has studied sociology in Greece (B.Sc. Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences) and in the UK (M.Sc (Econ), Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science) and holds a DPhil in Geography (University of Sussex). He was employed as researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), the University of Patras and the Agricultural University of Athens. He was elected Lecturer in the University of Ioannina where he served for five years. He was elected Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography in Harokopio University, where, currently, holds the position of Professor in Rural Sociology and Geography. In the same university, he has been Director of Postgraduate Studies of the M.Sc. entitled: “Applied Geography and Spatial Planning” (2009-2011), Vice-Rector of Economic Affairs and Development (2011-2015), and Dean of the School of Environment, Geography and Applied Economics (2017-2018).

He has coordinated as project leader, while also he worked as a senior researcher in, several research projects financed by the European Commission, the Greek State and other organizations. He has published numerous papers in international journals (Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy; Agriregionieuropa; Applied Geography; Autonomie Locali e Servizi Sociali; Environment and Planning C; Europa XXI; Frontiers in Sociology; International Review of Sociology; Italian Review of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Rural Cooperation; Journal of Rural Studies; Méditerranée; Migration Letters; Sociologia Ruralis; Southeast European and Black Sea Studies), in Greek academic journals (Γεωγραφίες; Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών; Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής Επιστήμης; Κοινωνιολογική Επιθεώρηση), collected volumes and conference proceedings. He has edited or co-edited eight collected volumes (two of them were published by Ashgate Publishers in 1999 and 2010) and co-authored one book. His research has been published in Greek, English, Italian and Portuguese.

He has been member of the Working Group on Migration coordinated by the Prime Minister Office (Greek Prime Minister Office –Official Gazette (FEK) Issue 1650/25-08-2011). He was appointed as member of the Advisory Board (2017-2020) of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), which is a European Research and Education Organization with its headquarters located in Paris; for the last two-year period (2019-2020) he was elected Chair of this scientific advisory body.

From the position of President of the Hellenic Sociological Association (HSS) he has undertaken the task to organize in Greece one of the largest social science congresses. He was the Chair of the LOC for the organization of the 13th ESA Conference Athens: “(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities”, 29 August to 1 September 2017. Consequently, he was elected member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the European Sociological Society (ESA) for two consecutive periods (2017-2019, 2019-2021) and Vice-President of External Affairs in the same organization for both periods.

Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the international peer reviewed journal Sociologia Ruralis for four years (2020-2023) and Associate Editor of the journal NEW MEDIT: Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. Moreover, he is member of the editorial board of the journals Migration Letters, Europa XXI and Κοινωνιολογική Επιθεώρηση; member of the international scientific board of the journals Border Studies, Social Studies [Studime Sociale], and Autonomie locali e servizi sociali; and member of the scientific board of the journal Social Cohesion and Development (Κοινωνική Συνοχή και Ανάπτυξη).

Angela Paparusso, demographer, is Researcher of the National Research Council at the "Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies" (CNR-IRPPS). She holds a doctorate in Demography (2016) from the Doctoral School in Statistical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome (title of the thesis: “Studying immigrant integration in Europe: civic rhetoric, citizenship policies and self-reported life satisfaction”). She graduated with honor in International Cooperation and Development, with a thesis on borders and migration in Europe that has been awarded by the Foundation “Roma Sapienza” for the “best master's degree in the discipline of Social Sciences”. She was also educated at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she obtained the “European Master in Demography” – degree of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD). She has been also visiting doctoral student at CERI SciencesPo. Currently, she also works for the Rome Chapter of the UNESCO Chair in “Population, Migrations and Development” and she is member the COST Action 16111 “International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities’ Survey Data Network”. She has teaching experiences in the academic courses of Demography and Development (Roma Tre University) and Sample Surveys (Unversity of Tuscia). Her main research interests focus on migration and integration policies and processes in Italy and Europe and subjective well-being in Italy and at European level.

Full Professor of Economic and Political Geography University of Milan Statale
ACADEMIA Europaea, Chair, Social Sciences Section
Habilitated Full Professor (2012) Geographer, phd in Geopolitics University of Trieste and Paris-Sorbonne consortiated 1993; Master post MA 'Planning and Rear Estate' Polytechnic of Tyrin, I teach Geopolitics and Economic Geography (University of Sannio, Benevento Italy).
Hab. Full Professor of Geography and Planning, Department of Social Sciences. Geography Unit, University of Sannio in Benevento
2013 Primary Coordinator 7FP People Marie Curie IRSES 'MEDCHANGe' 612639
2013 Chair, Italian National Committee in International Geographical Union
2013 CNR- National Council of Research, Italy Representative in IGU
2012 Founder and Chair, International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission 'Mediterranean Basin' (COMB)
2009-2012 Coordinator, International Geographical Union 'Mediterranean Renaissance Program
Vice Chair, International Geographical Union Commission ‘Geography of the Information Society’ 2006-2012
2005-2009 Executive Secretary, International Geographical Union’s ‘Mediterranean Renaissance Program’-MRP
Associate Director, NETCOM-Networks and Communication Journal, Montpellier
Founder and Chair, Italian Network on Geography of the Information Society, Italian Geographical Society and AGeI-Association of Italian Geographers
2013 University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Invited short Visiting mobility, August
2011-2013 Arab-Islamic Geoconomics and Markets, SUN-Second University of Naples, Faculty of Political Studies 'Jean Monnet'
2010 Accademia de’ Lincei –Academy of Sciences di Israel: Visiting Research Mobility in Israel.
2010 People's Republic of China, Keynote World EXPO Shanghai 2010 Forum Commitee 'ICT & Urban Development', Ningbo Shanghai, May 2010
2010 Republique Tunisienne, Min. Education Recherche, CERES-Centre d'Etude Economiques et Sociales, Tunis, Mars 2010 Bilateral Cooperation Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Tunisian Ministery of Foreign Affairs
2009 Short Visiting Mobility, National University of Seoul (Korea), Bilateral Cooperation Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korean Ministery of F

I am a social scientist, working on the field of migration and employment in the last 12 years. I am interested on migrant experiences of work in the contemporary neoliberal economic system. I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Faculty of Business and Law at Anglia Ruskin University. My research interests include intersectional approaches to migration and integration. My work includes research on undocumented migrants and the notion of status as a social construct.

Jonathan S. Parhusip is a Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His research interests include the politics of migration, the logistical chain of the Indonesia-Taiwan migration industry, and Southeast Asian studies. His PhD research explores the employment practices of SEA migrant fishers onboard Taiwanese fishing vessels, migrant solidarity, and labor rights activism in Taiwan.