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I’m a sociologist and I hold a PhD in Criminology (Panteion University -GR). I’'ve been working at the Greek Asylum Service since 2013, first as an Asylum Expert then as a Head of Asylum Units in Leros and in Athens. Currently, I’m course coordinator and instructor at the interdepartmental MSc in Media and Refugee / Migration Flows (National Kapodistrian University of Athens & University of the Aegean). My last research which is conducted jointly by the National Center for Social Research and the Center for the Study of Crime concerns integration issues of refugees, cultural norms, identities and ties.

I am a Lecturer based in the Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching at the University of Lincoln.

My key areas of interest are gender, work and migration. My current doctoral research looks at the aspirations and lived experiences of women migrants in the UK. I am supervised by Dr Anna Tarrant, Dr Agnieszka Rydzik, and Dr Ana Jordan.

I am the current GenSeM IMISCOE standing committee co-Representative for PhD students and Early Career Researchers.

I also work part-time on the Nuffield-funded project, ‘Caregiving Dads, Breadwinning Mums: Transforming Gender in Work and Childcare?’, which is being conducted at the University of Lincoln.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Structured Writing Retreat Facilitator trained by Prof. Rowena Murray.

I have 13 years’ work experience (including consultancy) in a range of organisations including local government bodies, grassroots charities, international aid agencies and social enterprises.

I began my career on the National Graduate Development Programme working at the London Borough of Islington in Housing Aid, Children’s Services, Policy and Programme Management, and the Refugee and Asylum Seekers team. I then moved to the voluntary sector, managing the Stronger Communities Programme at the Community Works in Brighton & Hove, which engaged local grassroots NGOs serving minority communities. After completing my Masters I worked for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), where I held a Research Officer position, acting as representative of Japanese ODA to DfID and British NGOs, and as JICA’s Gender Focal Point for the UK.

Ching-An Chang is an associate professor from the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan (R.O.C.). His research interests include 1) Middle East studies (with a special focus on the Levant), 2) refugee, migration, and diaspora in the Middle East, and 3) transnationalism. His work has appeared in International Migration, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Social Inclusion, and Insight Turkey.

Dr. Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban, is a Senior Assistant Professor, in the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India and he was a visiting research Fellow (June 2022) at the Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, and the Summer Institute fellow (June- July 2022) at Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute fellowship for Israel Studies at Brandeis University USA. His area of interest includes International Migration, Diaspora, Refugee, South Asia, South Asian Diaspora, Citizenship, Nation, Nationalism, and Transnationalism, Indian and Chinese Diaspora, Jewish Diaspora, Muslim Diaspora, Comparative Diaspora Studies, Contemporary English Literature/s, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, Interdisciplinary studies and Research Methodology. He has presented his research papers at various national and international conferences, attended summer schools, participated in workshops/training programs, and delivered lectures in different capacities in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, Croatia, Iraq, the USA, Uzbekistan, the U.K, Israel, Palestine, Azerbaijan, etc. There are three books, two special edited volumes of journals, and around twenty research articles to his credit. He has received various fellowships and awards including the Prof. B. M. Khedkar Award (2009), AP Urdu Academy Fellowship (2010-11), The Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF-JRF & SRF 2011-2016), The Wenner-Gren Foundation and EASA fellowship (2018), Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute fellowship for Israel Studies (2022) and The University of Illinois Library Research Award 2022 from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. He was recently awarded with the Young Alumnus of Honour – 2023 from the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, A Central University, Hyderabad, India.

He can be reached at shujaudeen09@gmail.com

Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro is a French-Argentinian PhD candidate at Sciences Po Law School, a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, and a Fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migrations (ICM).

His research articulates an interdisciplinary analysis (legal ethnography, doctrinal analysis and legal theory) of the legal processes of marginalization of migrants at the border. He works in particular on the case of the French-Italian border where he does his fieldwork. He seeks to unveil the legal operations that determine the status of migrants at the border. He examines more specifically how the dynamics of the socio-legal controversy around the border affect the interpretation and the elaboration of migration law, in particular migrants’ legal standing and citizens’ right to provide assistance to foreigners.

Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro is a graduate in Political Philosophy, Law and Migration Studies. He holds a B.A. in Humanities and Social Sciences (Sciences Po, 2013), an M.A. in Political and Legal Philosophy (Sorbonne University, 2015), an M.A. in Economic Law - Global Governance Studies (Sciences Po Law School, 2016) and an advanced M.A. in Interdisciplinary Analysis of the European Integration – Europe and Migrations (Institute for European Studies - University libre de Bruxelles, 2017).

In 2018-2019, Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro was a visiting research scholar at Northeastern University School of Law (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.). There, he pursued his research in close contact with the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. He is also part of the Law School’s Migration Clinic since 2019, where he initiated in 2019-2020 a clinical project that aimed to examine the controversial legal basis of migrant detention at the French Italian-Border. He is now a member of the Scientific Council and coordinates the Clinic’s program on Migrations.

Chantanee Charoensri is a sociologist of migration. She is currently the dean of the faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research includes: Thai Daughters, English Wives: A Critical Ethnography of Transnational Lives; Virtual Mobility among Highly Skilled Migrants in Thailand: Mobility movement and virtual mobility; From Migration Studies to Mobility Paradigm: An Evaluation of Frameworks Suitable for a Study of Highly Skilled Migration. She is a project leader for Thai-Norwegian couples in Thailand. Impact of transnational welfare and migration policy on return migration, which is a part of ThaiMig Project funded by Vid Specialized University's excellence in research. She is also a member of a research group : Transnational Intimacy and Migration Process (find out about the cluster here: https://transnationalintim.wixsite.com/website-3/team). Previously, she was a co-researcher for the Thai Entrepreneurs in the UK (Newton Fund).

My scholarship interrogates the significance of social categories as they mediate myriad opportunities and constraints in the everyday lives of immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. I utilize diverse methodologies, data sources, and theoretical perspectives to investigate how ascriptive social categories (race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.) and their corresponding symbolic boundaries are activated, reinforced, and contested within organizations, politics, and popular culture, among others. My current research program consists of three streams: 1) immigrant organizations, 2) immigrant politics and civic participation, and 3) the sociology of music.