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Tara Fiorito works as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Her research broadly falls in the areas of critical migration studies, engaged scholarship, resilient youths, and social movement studies, with a particular focus on and expertise in undocumented immigrant youth, critical theory, community engaged research, and qualitative research methods.

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Science, Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen. My main research interests include ethnic and social inequalities as well as longitudinal analytical methods. I am currently the PI of the DFG-funded project "The role of older siblings in the educational attainment of children with and without migration background" https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/466348479?language=en. My work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnicities, Advances in Life Course Research and European Sociological Review.

Professor at FLACSO-Argentina and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (IICSAL-FLACSO/CONICET). He is the director of the Diploma Superior en Migraciones, Movilidades e Interculturalidad en América Latina (Higher Diploma on Migrations, Mobilities and Interculturality in Latin America). His research interests are Intercultural relations, Jewish diaspora, Jewish-Korean Argentine relationship and academic mobilities in the context of the internationalization of higher education.

Serap Fišo is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the International University of Sarajevo. She has been actively teaching social sciences courses such as Sociology, Political Sociology, New Social Movements, and World History since 2014. She is also a freelance writer about migration and sociological issues in the Balkan. Her major area of interest is composed of migration in the Balkans with special emphasis on the engendering and newly established communities in Balkans. She is currently working on a narrative combining elements of personal and family history of the immigrant community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Apart from all the information which is mentioned above; she is the woman who is under the control of imposter syndrome and drowns into feelings of inadequacy despite evidence success. She knows that humanity is flawed and people who are under the control of illusory superiority the only opponent of her.

David Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego. His research analyzes policies regulating migration and asylum in countries of origin, transit, and destination. FitzGerald’s books include Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers (Oxford University Press 2019), winner of the American Sociological Association International Migration Section Best Book Award; Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press 2014), whose several awards include the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award; A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration (University of California Press 2009), Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy (Stanford University Press 2021), and six edited volumes on Mexico-U.S. migration. His more than 30 articles and book chapters have been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Law and Society Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, and New York University Law Review. He is currently co-authoring a book titled Refugees: A Sociological Systems Approach. FitzGerald was honored with the “Award for Public Sociology” from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association and frequently provides comment to local, national, and international media.

Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen (Germany). He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and is a research affiliate of the ERC-funded MIGRADEMO project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are political participation and inclusion of migrants with a focus on political parties, elections and civil society organisations. In his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas studied the political transnational activities of Latin American emigrants and political parties in Spain. Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative methods commonly used in political sociology.

Currently a researcher at ENTPE (University of Lyon) and associate researcher at PACTE (University of Grenoble), I hold a PhD in Sociology from Sciences-Po (Paris) that I completed in 2014 on intra-European migration. After my PhD, I have continued to research mobility and especially the links and interactions between different forms of mobility and social stratification.

Tineke Fokkema is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), in the Families & Generations group, and endowed professor Ageing, Families and Migration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within IMISCOE, she is coordinator of the Standing Committee ‘Older Migrants’. She is an internationally regarded specialist on ageing, intergenerational solidarity, migration, and their intersection. In 2014-2018 she was involved in the ERC Research project ‘Families in Context’ led by Prof. dr P.A. Dykstra, focusing on the social implications of growing old in a migration context. Fokkema has extensive experience with analyzing large-scale cross-national surveys (e.g. SHARE, GGS, TIES) and has done fieldwork among older migrants in Italy and Morocco. Fokkema holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has published in leading academic journals (e.g. The Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, European Journal of Ageing, and Ageing and Society).

Maria Lucinda Fonseca - Full Professor of Human Geography and Migration Studies at IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa. She is the Coordinator of the Research cluster MIGRARE - Migration, spaces and societies at the Centre of Geographical Studies and the Director of the PhD programme in Migration Studies at the Universidade de Lisboa.
She is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board of IMISCOE. She is, moreover, a member of the International Steering Committee of International Metropolis Project and EuroMedMig, and a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. She has been an advisor of a wide array of local, national and international governmental organizations and civic society institutions, including the Portuguese Observatory of Migration, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Brazilian Observatory of International Migration (OBMigra)”.
She coordinated and participated in several NORFACE and EU funded research projects and has wide experience in research training.