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Prof. Dr Sybille Münch is guest researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy at Leuphana University in Lüneburg and currently acts as Professor of Political Science at Hildesheim University. Her research focuses on interpretive approaches to policy analysis as well as urban and migration research.

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. My research is at the intersection of applied microeconomics and development economics.

Much of my research uses GIS data and self-collected data to investigate the impacts of internal displacement on the population displaced and their host communities. For instance, my work tackles questions such as Do forced displaced population flows have long-term social participation effects on their host communities? or How does forced displacement affect the timing of marriage, particularly, early marriage? and If traditional marriage payment norms influence such a relationship?

During my Phd I have worked as a consultant for the UNDP. Previously, I worked for the United Nations and the OECD.

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology II of UNED, Madrid. I have been a visiting researcher at the VU University of Amsterdam, University of Mannheim, University of Oxford, and UvA University of Amsterdam. My research has been published in journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration Review, European Sociological Review, Work, Employment and Society, and Comparative Migration Studies. Since 2018 I have been Secretary of the Research Committee CI-25 (Sociology of Migrations) of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES).

Rebecca Murray is a Lecturer in Sociological Studies teaching across Sociology and Social Work. She is a member of the Sanctuary advisory group and the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Rebecca sits on the national University of Sanctuary steering committee, following the merger of the Article 26 project, which she founded and directed. Rebecca’s extensive practice and research in relation to bordering and post compulsory education developed from young migrant-led grassroots campaigning and advocacy initiatives. Rebecca’s current project ‘(Re)imagining the Higher Education Border’, seeks to quantify the higher education border and facilitate a ‘(re)imagining of its scale and impact in participation with young migrants.

Shepherd Mutsvara is pursuing a joint doctorate program in Political Sciences and Administration with the Pedagogical University of Krakow and Ghent University. His research project focuses on the effects of economic liberalization on refugee movements in Sub-Saharan Africa. It seeks to establish if economic liberalization has become a serious form of economic persecution which International Law should take into consideration in the adjudication of asylum claims.

I am aPh.D. in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. My research interests are child migration, children involved in armed conflicts, and migration and asylum policies. . I have a BA and an MA in International Relations at the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil. I was an AAA Visiting Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz (June-October 2019) Between December 2018 and June 2019, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development (UZH, Switzerland). I was also a Visiting Scholar at the Carolina Population Center (UNC-Chapel Hill, 2017-2018) and at the Rutgers' Childhood Studies Department (2018). I am part of the Research Group “Human Rights and Vulnerabilities” (UNISANTOS, Brazil), of the Research Centre for International Relations (NUPRI/USP), and of the Research Group Nucleus of Research of Environmental Displaced People (NEPDA/UEPB). I have publications in national and international journals like Remhu, Revista Studi Migrazione, Revista Travessia, and Conflict, Security, and Development. In 2016, my MA Thesis (“Constructing a Silence in International Politics: the child soldiers in Colombia”) won the Cátedra Sergio Vieira de Mello Award (UNHCR) for best Ph.D. dissertations and MA thesis. I am currently involved in three research projects: The Family Reunification of Refugees in Brazil, the Migration of Unaccompanied Children to the United States, and The situation of children involved in the Colombian armed conflict.