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Ecological anthropologist with 30 years experience in Europe and Asia, working across NGOs, universities, and government. Major projects on Indigenous knowledge and medicine, Buddhist migrant landscapes, and disabled-led research.

Merve is a doctoral student in Sociology at School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences where she is a part of the research team Work, Family and Intimate Relations. She is also a part of the Newbreed doctoral program (a programme co-funded by the European Comission through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes) within the thematic area of Ageing from a Societal Perspective. She started her PhD at Örebro University in August 2018. Her project focuses on the experiences of older migrant women in Sweden.

She is currently working on the second book on Migration and Islam in Russia. She edited a book with a colleague from Lund University titled: “ Labour, Mobility and Informal practices in Russia: Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space” published in 2021 by Routledge. She has been writing on the topics of migration, entrepreneurship, informal economies, gender, border studies, identity and inter-ethnic relations among many other topics which she published in such journals as Inner Asia, Communist and post-Communist studies, Sociology of Islam, Central Asian Affairs, Central Asian Survey, Anthropology of Middle East among other journals. Her book based on her PhD thesis is out with Routledge in 2016 under the title `Migration and Identity: the Uzbek Experience`.

Domiziana is a DPhil Student in Migration Studies, Clarendon Scholar, and Gates Alumna investigating how families shape and are shaped by onward migration. Domiziana’s doctoral research focuses on the experiences of the families of onward Colombian migrants who moved from Spain to London.