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Swakshadip Sarkar is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Their current research seeks to examine the policy issues that affect transgender asylum seekers in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of their research is to inform the actors involved in policy-making to bring forward the issues faced by transgender asylum seekers from an intersectional perspective.

I am a PhD candidate at the Dept., of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Budapest). My PhD dissertation explores the reproduction of caste in Indian Diaspora in the UK. Based on ethnographic field work in the UK, I analyse how caste has survived through everyday socio-cultural and religious practices amongst the diasporic Indians. Building on theories of the social and cultural reproduction, my research examines the embeddedness of caste both as a belief and social practice in everyday life.
My research areas intersect the issues of caste, migration and diaspora; cultural reproduction; anthropology of caste and religion.

Ph.D. Candidate in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK. I hold a master's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. I worked as a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (2011-2020).

Pasi Saukkonen is a political scientist working currently at the City of Helsinki Urban Facts. Previously he has been employed as Senior Researcher and as the Director of The
Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research (Cupore) and in different positions at the University of Helsinki. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Helsinki
(political science) and at the University of Jyväskylä (cultural policy). He has published widely on, for example, issues related to nationalism and national identity, politics in a multicultural society, local and national integration policies and cultural policies, and on the culture, society and politics in the Netherlands.

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Government at Georgetown University. My research focuses on international migration policy, the way European states address irregular migration, diaspora politics, and public attitudes towards migrants. --- Je suis un doctorant à l'Université de Georgetown. Mes recherches se focalisent sur les politiques de migration, la façon dont les pays européens répondent aux migrations irrégulières, les mobilisations politiques des diasporas, et les opinions publiques envers des migrants internationales.

Hasret Saygı has recently earned her Ph.D in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Bogazici
University in Istanbul. Her expertise lies in sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. In her Ph.D thesis, she focused on everyday interaction between the refugee and local women sharing the same neighbourhood in Turkey. Her ethnographic study aimed to understand the dialogical processes through which the women construct and negotiate their identities and social relations. Hasret received her M.A degree in the Department of Applied Linguistics at King's College, London, and wrote her thesis about the workplace interaction between the Turkish immigrant workers and their customers in London. Apart from her academic interest in migration, she took part in a grassroots organization combating racism and nationalism in Turkey as a pro-refugee activist. She also did two-year voluntary teaching in a community center in Istanbul, and took an active role in After-School Project which aimed to help Syrian children register and integrate in the local schools and to provide them with the supplementary language and literacy education in their neighbourhood in Istanbul.

Dr Silvia Scarpa is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at John Cabot University of Rome (Italy). She passed the selection process held at the same institution and will be hired as Associate Professor of International Relations in 2021. Between 2013 and 2019 she also taught International Law at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. She has delivered lessons at the undergraduate, graduate and professional level at various institutions, including, inter alia: the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (Italy), the University La Sapienza of Rome, the American University of Rome, the Scuola Ufficiali Carabinieri of Rome, and the Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) of Vicenza (Italy). Dr Scarpa also worked as a consultant at the Italian Office against Racial Discrimination (UNAR) of the Department of Equal Opportunities, the Directorate General Justice and Consumers (JUST), the Directorate General Migration and Internal Affairs (HOME) and the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission, and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO). She holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Political Science with a specialization in International Law and Human Rights awarded by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (2006), a Master in International Protection of Human Rights awarded by the University La Sapienza of Rome (2002) and a Degree summa cum laude and special mention in Political Science – International Affairs awarded by the University LUISS Guido Carli of Rome (2000). Finally, Dr Scarpa is the author of the monograph entitled Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2008), of the manual An Introduction to International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement Authorities (UniversItalia, 2012), of the European Parliament’s Study on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (European Union, 2018) and of scholarly articles published in relevant journals and edited collections. For more information see: https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/silvia-scarpa and https://johncabot.academia.edu/SilviaScarpa.

I am a member of the interdisciplinary research group "The Production of Knowledge on Migration" at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrueck, Germany, and a PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz, Germany. I am interested in sociological theories and practices of governing migration as well as in the study of the production of police knowledge on migration.