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Yingzi is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD project attempts to examine multi-generational care amongst rural migrant workers in southern China, which focuses on the family dynamics, gender relations and care practices in the context of rural-urban migration and how relevant social policies on hukou, healthcare and education influence this process. The research utilises qualitative methods, including semi-structured interview, ethnographic observation, participatory research approaches. Her PhD programme is jointly funded by the University of Sheffield and China Scholarship Council.
Prior to her PhD project, Yingzi studies Communication Studies at Peking University in Beijing, China. Yingzi's master's dissertation examines domestic workers' emotional labour and how domestic service companies use technology and professional trainings to professionalise domestic workers' emotional labour, which results in further exploitation and alienation.

Richa Shivakoti is the Research Lead on Migration Governance at Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research focus is on the governance of labour migration within Asia, particularly between the labour-sending states of South Asia and South East Asia and the labour receiving states in the Middle East. Her current research questions the sustainability of the circular temporary migration governance regimes in Asia. She is the Primary Investigator for a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and works with partners in Nepal and the Philippines to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on temporary migrant workers.

Richa has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore and a dual Masters in Public Affairs and Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. Previously, she was a research officer at Carleton University, a postdoctoral fellow at Maastricht University and the United Nations University in the Netherlands, and a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. Richa has taught in various capacities in universities in Canada, USA, Singapore and Nepal. She has also worked for and consulted with various international organizations such as the International Organization for Migration, the International Labour Organization, the ASEAN Secretariat, the Open Society Foundations and the International Rescue Committee.

My research and expertise concern political representation of migrants, citizenship and belongings, forced migrations, work exploitation and access to decent housing for migrants.
I have obtained a PhD in Political Sociology at the University of Padua, Italy. The focus of my research project was the political integration of migrants and refugees in Italy and the United Kingdom. During my PhD I held also a residential visiting positions at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2014-2015).
Here you can find my publications https://unipd.academia.edu/EriseldaShkopi

PhD Student at HCRI, University of Manchester

Oksana Shmulyar Gréen Oksana Shmulyar Gréen is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at University of Gothenburg with a broad international experience in education and research. She received her Bachelor Degree in Sociology at Kyiv State University in Ukraine. Her M.A. degree in Sociology has been awarded jointly by the Central European University in Prague and Lancaster University in Great Britain. She took her Ph.D. in Sociology in December 2009, at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg. Specialist fields Mobility within the EU, family and migration, migration decision making, transnational families and care, children and migration, children and agency, formal and informal social security provision, transnational belonging and identity, life-course perspective, welfare and gender policies, family practices, parenting and care, welfare in East and Central Europe, domestic work and global division of labour, societal development in and migration from Ukraine.

Laura's particular area of interest is refugee education through the lens of social learning and the concept of intersectionality. She works as a Lecturer in the Lifelong Learning Centre at Cardiff University, teaching modules on courses that provide access routes to degrees and on co-created community courses that she largely delivers with asylum seekers and refugees. Laura also works as a Research Manager in the third sector.

Laura Shobiye has a PhD awarded by Cardiff University, for which she explored the social learning experiences of mothers seeking sanctuary in Wales. Her research methods were ethnographic and participatory, involving qualitative interviews and arts-based creative methods and is informed by the concept of intersectionality.

Shahar Shoham is a doctoral candidate in Global and Area Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her ethnographic research focuses on work migration from Thailand to the agriculture sector in Israel, while addressing issues of return migration, migration regimes, migrants' unions and labor rights struggles, visual imaginaries and archives of mobilities and identities of the people on the move and their communities.
Shoham holds a double major B.A in Philosophy and East Asia Studies from Tel Aviv University, and an M.A in Global Studies from Humboldt University. She is a former scholarship holder from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung in Germany. Shoham is currently a visiting research fellow in the research project “TraffLab: Labor Perspectives to Human Trafficking” (ERC) in the law faculty of Tel Aviv University. She also co-initiated a research project focusing on the trajectories of Eritrean refugees who ‘voluntary’ departed Israel to Rwanda and found refuge in Europe. Previously Shoham worked as the manager of the migrant and refuges department in the NGO “Physicians for Human Rights-Israel”.

Human geography researcher focusing on environmental change and transnational migration

I am an Assistant Professor (Limited Duties) in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. I have a comprehensive and global education in Library and Information Science. I am part of the South Asian diaspora, and I have been fortunate to gain educational, teaching, and volunteer experience in Asia, Europe, and North America. Before joining as a Ph.D. student and later as an instructor, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science and Library Management at the University of Dhaka, the largest and oldest public university in Bangladesh and one of the best universities in South Asia. My doctoral study explored the settlement information behavior of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada and the role of information behavior in newcomers’ settlement in Canada. At Western, I am currently teaching research methods and previously taught public library services for newcomers and immigrants. My research focuses on various areas of migration, information behavior, public libraries, open access, and social justice and equity issues in LIS.