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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.

Pasa M. Ozyurt holds a Ph.D. in tourism and culture. His research interests include migration from the global North to the global South, tourism-driven migration, lifestyle migration, and retirement migration. He aims to make an impact on how we understand the inspirations and consequences of migrations. He recently spent a year as a postdoc fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Open for collaborations.

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

I am a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, whose interests have taken me to fieldworks in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo and Nigeria. While I have researched a variety of issues, ranging from selection criteria in refugee resettlement to border control at airports and human trafficking, my core competence lies in the field of return migration and return policies.

In my doctoral research I examined return migration to Iraqi Kurdistan, which also triggered a longstanding interest in the migration-corruption nexus. I have also taken part in a string of evaluations of assisted return from Norway to Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kosovo.

Building on those experiences, I'm now coordinating the project Deporting Foreigners: Contested Norms in International Practice (NORMS, 2021-2024). NORMS cmpoaratively explores the norm dynamics of deportation from both host and origin state perspectives, in Norway, Sweden, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Ethiopia, and moroever within the EU's border agency, Frontex.

Previously, I have been affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in the Study of Civil War (CSCW) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), as well as the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, where I taught 'migration control'. I have also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex and at the University of Oxford.

Agnese Pacciardi is a PhD canddiate at the University of Lund, Department of Political Science.
She investigates European external migration management policies in North and West Africa drawing on migration studies, border studies and security studies.

Graduate programme of International Relations
Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair/NEPDA
State University of Paraiba (www.uepb.edu.br)
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Full Research Collaborator
Graduate Programme of Comparative Studies on the Americas
University of Brasilia
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Senior Research Associate
Refugee Law Initiative
University of London