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My work is located at the intersections of sociology of childhood and materialist feminist thought, with a focus on unequal childhoods, migration and stratified social reproduction. It contributes to key debates about the politics of children and childhood; changing adult-child relations in the context of neo-liberal migration and welfare regimes; and how and to what effect children are involved in migration processes.

Anna Maria Rosinska (formerly Kordasiewicz) is a policy analyst at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Demography and Migration Unit. Formerly a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at that Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2018-2023) and a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell (2018-2020). She had worked at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. Her previous projects were: "MAJORdom. Intersections of class and ethnicity in paid domestic and care work: theoretical development and policy recommendations based on the study of 'majority workers' in Italy and in the USA" (2018-2022) and 'Mig/Ageing: Unfinished migration transition and ageing population in Poland: Asynchronous population changes and the transformation of formal and informal care institutions'. Anna does research in Sociology and Qualitative Social Research.

I’m Sopiko Rostiashvili, enthusiastic about migration. In 2020, with my fellow activists established the first refugee-led youth organisation Echo of Diversity and currently I’m a board member. My academic work had been significantly improved in 2021 by two meaningful programs: Erasmus+ at Cote d’Azur University, where I have started working on my master thesis and have graduated at Ilia State University “Svani migrants’ self-assertion practices in Dmanisi, Georgia”. Furthermore, Swedish Institution SAYP module of migration and integration leaded by Gothenburg University and working on follow-up project. Currently I’m youth-lead mentor at World Vision International and mentoring volunteers, who work with young migrants.

PD Dr. Stefan Rother is a senior researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute for socio-cultural research, and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. In the winter term 2019/20 he acted as interim professor (Vertretungsprofessur) at the Chair of International Politics, University of Freiburg. His research focus is on international migration, global governance, social movements, regional integration and non-/post-Western theories of international relations. He was previously a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and researcher and editorial manager of the “International Quarterly for Asian Studies”. In 2019, he was co-convener of the International Fellow Group “Migration, Mobility and Forced Displacement” at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana.
In 2019, he completed his cumulative habilitation on „Multi-level Governance from below? Migrant Civil Society and the Democratisation of International Institutions”. Rother received his doctorate at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg with the thesis “Diffusion in transnational political spaces: Political activism of Philippine labor migrants in Hong Kong". He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Southeast Asia as well as participant observation at global governance fora and civil society parallel and counter-events at the UN, ILO, ASEAN and WTO-level as well as European Forum on Migration and World Social Forum on Migration. Stefan Rother has published articles in Third World Quarterly, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Globalizations, European Journal of East Asian Studies, International Migration, Migration Studies, the German Journal for Political science (ZPol) and several edited volumes. He is a board member of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) and speaker of the working group on migration in the German political science association (AK Migrationspolitik in der DVPW). His latest monograph is “Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants” (Lexington 2016, with Christl Kessler).

Susan Rottmann obtained her B.A. degree in Comparative Religion from Cornell University in 2001, her M.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006, and her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Her research specialties are ethics, globalization, migration, transnationalism, gender, religion and politics in Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Rottmann has received several major research grants, including a Fulbright-Hays DDRA and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Research Institute in Turkey and the Institute of Turkish Studies.

Geographer, postdoctoral researcher & scientific coordinator of the HEALTH department at the collaborative Institut, associate researcher at the IRMC (Tunis) since September 2021.
From September 2017 to July 2021 , Betty Rouland was a CNRS-MEAE researcher developing a research program on "Globalization, regional mobilities and local development: towards the emergence of a transnational health care space in North Africa?" at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain. Her work focuses on Maghrebi and West African patients using private health services in Tunisia (spaces, networks, experiences). At the crossroads of the triptych "mobilities, globalization, and health", her work has a strong spatial lens (multi-scalar analyses), is based on a cross-cutting thematics (geography of mobilities, regional and health) and mixed methods of research (quantitative, qualitative). Since July 2021, she is a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the HEALTH department at the Convergences Institute and an 'associate researcher' at the IRMC (Tunis).

Francisco Rowe is the lead of the Geographic Data Science Lab and a Senior Lecturer in Human Quantitative Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning within the University of Liverpool. He is also a Project Associate of the international project IMAGE: Comparing Internal Migration Around the Globe. His areas of expertise are: internal & international migration; human mobility; and computational social science. He has been invited to present his research at the United Nations Population & Development Division in New York and works closely with the International Organization for Migration, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UK’s government organisations, including the Ordnance Survey and the ONS Data Campus, and commercial companies, Geolytix. His work contributed to the United Nations Expert group meeting on `sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration’, and the ONS Government Statistical Service Advisory Committee. Francisco is editor of REGION, the journal of the European Regional Science Association (2018-present). The international reach of his research has been recognised by an award for the best paper published in Spatial Economic Analysis in 2018 and having top articles in the top 10 most read articles in Transport Research Part C (2018), Spatial Economic Analysis (2019) & Population Studies (2019).

My area of research is Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. I investigate different dimensions of refugee governance, camp governmentality, refugee agency from an ethnographic lens. I apply NVivo software in analyzing data. Currently I have been pursuing Doctoral studies at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary on a study leave from Faculty of Bangladesh Open University.