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I am a PhD candidate in English Studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I hold a Master's Degree in Nationalism Studies from Central European University. For my PhD project I am conducting a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the education policies for Syrian refugee students in Turkish public schools.

Dr Lewis Turner is Lecturer in International Politics of Gender at Newcastle University, UK. He is a political ethnographer of humanitarianism in the Middle East’– particularly Jordan - and his work investigates questions of gender (especially men and masculinities), refugee recognition, vulnerability, labour market integration, and race and racism in humanitarianism. His research on the Syria refugee response has appeared in journals including International Feminist Journal of Politics, Middle East Critique, and Review of International Studies, and has received prizes from professional associations including the British International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association. Currently, he is part of the ASILE Project, an EU Horizon2020 funded project investigating the interactions between emerging international protection systems and the United Nations Global Compact for Refugees.

Irene Tuzi is a sociologist of migration with particular expertise in ethnography, refugee studies, gender studies and the Middle East. She holds a double PhD in Social Sciences from Sapienza University of Rome and Humboldt University of Berlin, received with honour (summa cum laude). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) at Humboldt University Berlin. Her current research project focuses on the impact of separation on integration among refugee families in Europe and the Middle East.

Guri Tyldum is a sociologist and research professor at Fafo Research Foundation in Oslo. Her main research interest is in migration aspirations and migration flows, currently doing research on migration aspirations in refugee populations, and the mobility of Ukrainian refugees in Europe. She has published on refugee mobility, irregular migration, migration from Ukraine, labour migration, human trafficking and methodological challenges in the study of rare and elusive poulationas.

Tessa Ubels researches the intended and unintended social effects of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for displaced persons. She uses a mixed-method, multi-sited and longitudinal research approach.