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Having studied skilled migration, return migration and diaspora repatriation in the context of my home country, Armenia, I have now embarked on an academic boat in Istanbul, Turkey. My doctoral research focuses on the modern labor migration of Armenians to Turkey in the context of the Eurasian migration system and post-Soviet social transformations. Being based in Istanbul, I also take a chance of exploring the indigenous Armenian community and their experiences as a minoritised group in Turkey.

PhD Geography, Clark University

I am Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI, where I am director of the EU BORDER CARE project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant. I am co-leader (with Marc Brightman, UCL, and Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Columbia University) of a small project on unidentified migrant death in the Mediterranean, entitled 'Ecologies of Remembrance: The Moral Aferlives of Unidentified Migrant Death Along the Central Mediterranean Migration Route' funded by the Wenner-Gren. I am also member of the ASIL-EU Research Consortium on Asylum Law and Citizenship in EU Borderlands and of the ZIKA Social Science Network.
I am a social and medical anthropologist interested in the study of health and healthcare systems, migration and borderlands, gender and minority rights, kinship, life and remembrance, especially in contexts of social change and crisis. Over the last 13 years, I have worked in Lowland South America, Southern Europe and West Africa.
I was trained at Oxford and Cambridge University and have held research and teaching positions at the Collège de France, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Oxford University.
My current research projects, funded by the ERC and the Wenner Gren

Marika Gruber is senior researcher & lecturer at the School of Management and teaches Inter- and Transculturalism at the Disability & Diversity Studies programme. She is deputy head of the Dept. “Demographic Change and Regional Development” at the Institute for Applied Research on Ageing and is member of the research group “Transformative Societal Political & Cultural Engagement". Her research focus is on migration & integration politics and governance, social inclusion and participatory research.

Ania is a final-year PhD candidate in cultural geography. and education at Durham University, UK. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of parental cultural heritage in shaping the feelings and understandings of belonging amongst immigrant-background emerging adults. Using collaborative qualitative methods to work with emerging adults from a range of cultural and ethnic background, Ania aims to paint a broader picture of how heritage, identity, and education intersect in the narratives of belonging in the migration context. She hopes to use this knowledge to inform further research on practices and policies that would support immigrant communities, mainstream schools, and individuals in navigating these complex processes of understanding and embracing heritage and identity.

My name is Lutz Gschwind. I am a researcher in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University.

My research interests encompass political economy, social policy, international migration, economic integration and working conditions. I recently completed my PhD thesis which explores the social protection of immigrants in times of increasing welfare conditionality. I hold a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz as well as a MSc in Political Science from Uppsala University.

I am a linguist investigating narratives of migration, with a focus on European migrants in the UK, especially high-skilled migrants. I am also interested in representations of the Brain Drain in the Italian and Spanish press. I am interested in personal experiences of migration, in particular in relation to mental health and wellbeing, alongside identity and belonging. I have worked on hostility/microaggressions, offering suggestions as to how current models based in psychology/counselling could be strengthened by accurate linguistic analysis. My approach is informed by conversation/discourse analysis. When the dataset is large enough, I also adopt corpus linguistics.