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A media and migration scholar/digital anthropologist with expertise in the material and affective practices of connectivity among European and forced migrants. I am particularly interested in observing the role that media technologies play in shaping transnational identities and communities, but also how they contribute to the circulation of solidarity and support across and despite of borders.

Dr. Ihor Markov is the Senior Researcher at the Department of the Social Antropology of the Institute of Ethnology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Laboratory for Social Research in Lviv. He has a PhD in ethnology. The areas of expertise include social dynamics and identities, social communication, political process, transnational and global migration.

Ivaylo Markov holds a doctoral degree in Ethnology from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethographic Museum – BAS in Sofia (since 2011, PhD thesis “Contemporary Labour Migrations of Albanians from Macedonia”). Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the same institute, where he directs the regular research seminar “Mobility. Migrations. Culture”. He also is a part-time lecturer at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski, where he reads the lecture course "Anthropology of Migrations" within the master’s curriculum of "Interpretative Anthropology".
His research interests are directed toward migration processes in the region of Southeastern Europe. The research projects he has been participating in have allowed him to work with different ethnic, cultural and social groups (some of them dispersed through the state borders) in several SEE countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia). His fieldwork and publications cover the following research topics: historical patterns of human mobility and their reflections on the contemporary migratory dynamics; role of financial and social remittances in socio-cultural transformation’s processes; transnationalism and coping with the live in-between; transnational family-kin relationships, inter-personal conflicts and decision-making issues of migration; memory and heritage in migration, etc.

• Assistant Professor in International Law/ Human Rights/ Humanitarian Law, Dept of International European and Area Studies, Panteion University
• Jean Monnet Chair Holder on civil Protection and Humanitarian Action (emphasis on Migration and solidarity).
• Director of the European Training and Research Center on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action (EKEKDAAD) -Project Coordinator UNESCO Chair on Peace, Human Rights and Democracy - Head of EU and UNHCR Research projects on mapping integration indicators for the inclusion of refugee and migrant children through education, as well as on homeless unaccompanied children
• Chair of the European Committee against Racism and Intolerance (since January 2020, term of two years

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I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of International Relations of the University of Groningen (IRIO-RUG) and a researcher at RUG’s Migration Lab. Previously, I was a PhD Fellow in Philosophy of Law at Uppsala University with a 4-year grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. I defended my PhD, entitled The Human Right to Leave: But Whereto? in September 2022. I also hold a PhD from the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. I have spent periods of research at the University of Ottawa, the University of Lisbon and Lund University. My research interests lie in the fields of political and legal philosophy, IR theory and the history of international law. My current research focuses on how the rights of climate migrants and internally displaced persons challenge territorial sovereignty and human rights law. I have taught and supervised students in several universities in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands for over 15 years in all subfields of IR as well as in legal and political theory and in migration ethics and law. 2018 saw the publication of my book Reinhold Niebuhr and International Relations Theory: Realism Beyond Hobbes by Routledge and I am now writing a second single-authored monograph on the language of natural rights as a security discourse.

Ervis Martani is researcher at Università di Genova, Italy. From October 2019 to September 2021 he was postdoctoral fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada. From May 2016 to September 2019, he was the chair holder of the UNESCO Chair in «Multiculturalism, Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights in the Balkans». Ervis Martani’s research works mostly focus on refugee integration, intercultural dialogue, human rights and minority rights.