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Dr. Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo is a full time researcher at the Institute of
Legal Research of UNAM and Coordinator of the National Diversities Laboratory of
UNAM and of the institutional research track: Rights, Migrations and Mobilities. In
2021 she received the National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars 2021 in
the area of social science research. She coordinates the Diploma “Gender and Equality
Policies” and is academic coordinator of the Diploma “International Law for Refugees
and International Protection in Mexico” at UNAM. She is a researcher at CAMINAR
(Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas)
and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI - 1). Specialist in gender and
migration, immigration detention, bureaucracies, gender violence and womens
autonomy. She recently published the article Immigration Detention. the Patriarchal State and the Politics of Disgust in the Hands of Street-level Bureaucrats https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/download/immigration-detention-the-pat…

PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California. His lines of research are youth, public space, digital cultures, and citizenship.

Mariña Fernández-Reino is Senior Researcher at the Migration Observatory and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford.

Belén Fernández Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of A Coruña, Spain. She is member of the Research Team in Sociology of International Migrations (ESOMI). Her main lines of research are migration policies, local integration policies, and comparative policies of immigration. She did research stays at the University of California-San Diego, University of Lisbon, University of Sheffield (UK), University of Poitiers (France) and University of California-Berkeley.

Nuno joined the University of Sussex as a Professor of Law in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool (2012-2016) and Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2006-2012). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University (China) and the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), as well as a guest scholar at the University of Girona (Spain) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden).

Nuno did his undergraduate law studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and University of Bologna (Italy), and is a member of the Portuguese Bar. He worked as a legal consultant at the Legal Affairs and Litigation Department of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), and as a research fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (ZERP) (Germany). He carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Bremen, where he obtained his Dr. jur. title (summa cum laude).

Nuno is a Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant recipient, leading the project SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum (2016-2020), and co-director of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research.

PhD Student in Social Sustainability. The focus of research is on the nexus between environmental changes and migration in Morocco.

BSc in Management of International Social Challenges at Erasmus University Rotterdam