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İlke Şanlıer Yüksel is an associate professor in the School of Communications and serves as the Director of Migration and Development Research Center (MIGCU) at Çukurova University. She got her BA degree from Sociology Department at Boğaziçi University and a PhD degree from Communication program at Anadolu University. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of migration. She works on the media’s role in diasporic cultures. She is also interested in transnational politics through mediated settings, visual culture and media ethnography. She has a long experience in field research and ethnographic research on migrants. Her current interests also include local cinema history. She is the co-investigator for Topological Atlas: Mapping Contemporary Borders (H2020-ERC) and external expert for Global Asylum Governance and European Union's Role (ASILE) project which is funded under H2020 scheme. She has previously worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Migration Research Center at Koç University and as an assistant professor at Doğuş University in Istanbul. She served as a researcher for “Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People (EURA-NET)” (EU FP7) project for the Turkish team.

Glenda Santana de Andrade is a PhD in Sociology, attached to the Sociological and Political Research Center of Paris (Université Paris 8). Fellow at the Institut Convergences MIGRATIONS, France. Lecturer at the Nouveau Collège d’Études Politiques (NCEP), Université Paris Lumières. Her research focuses on refugees, migration, citizenship, collective action and survival strategies, with a geographical focus on Middle East. In addition, she holds a master's degree in Political Science from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Université Paris 1), a master's degree in International Politics - IPE from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication - Journalism from PUC-SP . She is the author of What kind of citizenship in refugee camps? Palestinians in Lebanon (Quelle citoyenneté dans les camps de réfugiés ? Les Palestiniens au Liban, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2016).

Arianna Santero PhD in Sociology and Political Science, is Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society. Her research expertise lies in the field of gender relations, sociology of the family, migration processes and social inequalities, in particular inequalities in education, migrant families, migration and family policies, work-family balance and parenthood. She is participating in the research projects GEA – Gendering Academia, on gender inequalities in academic career; and InFact – Changing Families and Changing Institutions. She was co-coordinator of the FAMnet Equalsoc project Practices and Policies Around Parenthood: Towards New Models of Fatherhood? (University of Turin, UPF Barcelona e WZB Berlin). She participated as indipendent expert in the Mutual Learning Programme in gender equality of the European Commission. Among her publications are: Migrant Parents in Italy: Gendered Narratives on Work-Family Balance (with M. Naldini, Journal of Family Studies, 2020); Fathers, Childcare and Work. Cultures, Practices and Policies in Comparative Perspective (Eds, with R. Musumeci, Emerald, 2018).

Maria Teresa Santos is a PhD candidate in migration at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon. Her professional background includes nearly 20 years experience managing European Union and Portuguese cooperation projects mostly in Portuguese Speaking African Countries and East-Timor. After taking her MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, she now turns her focus to the European continent and specifically to the relation between migration and development within the European Union space.

In her PhD research she takes as her point of departure the destruction of the imaginary frontier that separates the underdeveloped global south from the developed global north. By exposing the dynamics of the latest stage of capitalism, she shows that the global north is also a space of unequal development not only between countries but also between regions, where the Intra-EU migration flows represent a symptom of this uneven development. This perspective allows her to place the migration and development debate within the uneven geographical development of the European Union.

In particular she pretends to research the contribution of Portuguese migrants in Germany to the development of Portugal and its regions. Using the lenses of critical realism, social space theory and political economy analysis she pretends to reflect on both commonalities and differences between migrants and non-migrant’s actions restructuring space and scale processes under neoliberalism. She takes a multi-scalar, multi-sited perspective as methodological options to pursue research in the uneven global north evidencing the relevance of the migration and development debate in a renewed geography of capitalism, re-centering the importance of space and territory.

PhD candidate in Urban Studies at ISCTE-IUL and Nova University, Lisbon. MA in Sociology (University of Porto) and BA in Journalism (UFMG, Brazil). My research interests lie at the intersection of migration studies and urban studies. My ongoing PhD project explores how differences of race, class and migratory status are related to migrants' trajectories and urban emplacement. I focus on small business owners in Porto and Lisbon neighbourhoods to analyse global inequalities at street level.

Before I joined the Department of Government as DAAD lecturer, I was a postdoctoral researcher and research associate at the Department for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn (Germany). In my dissertation, I developed a concept of solidarity and addressed the question of solidarity in the asylum system of the European Union, including a closer look on the so-called refugee crisis. After receiving my doctorate in 2019, I took a one-and-half-year sabbatical.

I have led research projects on migration governance in Southern Africa as well as on the migratory movements from Africa to Europe during the Arab Spring. My research and teaching focuses on the European Union’s political system and functioning, its asylum and border control policies, and the salient questions of solidarity and the rule of law. German politics and the country’s role in the EU are also within my area of expertise.

I have a Ph.D. from the University of Debrecen in Hungary, with the honorific Summa Cum Laude. Human mobility, labor markets, migration statistics, immigrant entrepreneurship, and gender studies are areas in which I work. Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigrant Entrepreneurship at the Polish Academy of Sciences based on the institute of philosophy and sociology.