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John Carlaw is a Senior Research Associate under the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada where he co-leads CERC’s Politics and Narratives of Migration Research Theme. His current projects include CONTESTATIONS of Migration and Belonging in Canada amidst COVID-19 and a book manuscript, Neoconservative Multiculturalism: The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Migration and Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial Canada. John has previously led CERC Migration’s graduate student mentorship program and annual research symposia (2020-2023) and taught at Trent and York Universities. From 2015 to 2019, John served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, where he also completed his doctorate. He has recieved funding for his research both during and since his doctoral studies from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Research focus/fields of interest include: immigration policy, citizenship, political parties, populism.

I do research on global migration, immobility and transnationalism. My work seeks to explain how migration arises, and how it affects societies, families and individuals. These broad questions have led to research on a range of specialized topics, including migrant smuggling, and remittance transactions, and migration aspirations. My theoretical contributions to migration studies include the aspiration/ability model (2002), the concept of involuntary immobility (2002), the asymmetries of migrant transnationalism (2008), the integration-transnationalism matrix (2014) and the scripting of remittances (2014). I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, l have a strong interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication.

José Ignacio Carrasco (PhD, Pompeu Fabra University - UPF) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. Before moving to Oxford in 2023, Ignacio was a doctoral student at UPF, where he used various quantitative methods and social simulation to work on three interconnected areas of migration research: labour market integration of Intraregional migrants; the dynamics of remittance behaviour; and the underpinning mechanisms of emigration rates. He has previously worked at the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Practice Group and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), addressing issues related to migration, social development, malnutrition, and child labour.
Currently, he is currently working on the MIGNEX (Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus) and MORE (Motivations, Experiences and Consequences of Returns and Readmissions Policy: Revealing and Developing Effective Alternatives) projects. In the MIGNEX project he is conducting research related to the working packages on causes and consequences of migration. Specifically, he is conducting Natural Language Processing (NLP) of bibliometric data on academic literature related to the topic of Root Causes of Migration. He is also working on identifying the virtuous mechanisms underlying the migration-development-nexus. In the MORE project, he will be conducting research on the working package related to analysing the political and economic motivations, media discourses and approaches to Returns and Readmissions (RR) Policy.
Ignacio holds a Master of Science in Demography from Stockholm University, a Master in Migration Management from Pompeu Fabra University, and a degree in Sociology from University of Chile. He is an affiliate at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research (MPIDR) Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being.

Sara Carrasco Granger completed her bachelors degree in Policy Studies at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, NY, US (2011). Her research focus is on migration studies, human rights and global justice. She is currently completing her PhD on the migrant-refugee binary (origin, legitimization logic, judicial transposition on to international instruments, and empirical implications for human rights achievement).

She currently works as Technical Researcher at the Department of Public Law I and Political Science at Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid (Spain), and is member of the Good Governance Observatory of the Rey Juan Carlos University research team.

She has completed a Master in International Migration (University of Valencia, 2019), a Master in Public Policies and Ethics for Democratization and Development (IEPALA, University Complutense of Madrid, 2013), as well as academic research fellowships completed at the University of Chile, Chile (2011), Université Catholique de Lille, France (2019), as well as the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2023) and is alumni of the School of Civic Studies in Civicaly Engaged Research at Tufts University, Boston, M.A., U.S (2021). She also holds a Diploma in Mental Health in Situations of Political Violence and Catastrophes from the Community Action Group, Complutense University of Madrid (2016) and currently collaborates with the Platform for International Cooperation of Undocumented Migrants (PICUM).

She has been a member of several research projects related to migration: migration to the European Union (H2020 PERCEPTIONS Project); International Refugee Visa Research in collaboration with the International Bar Association in Paris, France, 2019; intervention with unaccompanied foreign minors under the supervision of Professor Emmanuel Jovelin, Université Catholique de Lille, France, 2019; human rights in the West Bank in collaboration with the Women's Affairs Technical Committee of Ramallah, Palestine (2013), and West Side of Syracuse Community Organizing project under the supervision of Professor John Burdick, Syracuse University, NY, US (2010).

I am a political scientist and I have a doctorate in Social Studies (political processes) from the UAM (Mexico).

The topics of my interest are: voting abroad, transnational suffrage, political parties, electoral systems, democracy and civic education, as well as quantitative methods for political analysis.

My latest book is entitled Electoral Governance and Extraterritorial Voting in Mexico, 2005-2018, published by the Guanajuato electoral institute.