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Dr. Marie Godin is a Lecturer in Human Geography at School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester. She is a Research associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford ). She is also Associate Editor for Migration Studies Journal (Review Editor) - https://academic.oup.com/migration/pages/Editorial_Board

Lela Goginava - is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education, specializing in Education Sciences, at the East European University (EEU). Additionally, she holds the position of Director of the Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies (CMDS) at the Grigol Robakidze University of Georgia. She has obtained MA degrees in Peace Studies, Philosophy, and Journalism. Currently, Lela Goginava is pursuing her PhD as a student in the Joint Program on Educational Sciences between East European University and Middlesex University (London), with a research focus on identity and heritage language studies in Georgian diaspora communities. She serves as a Co-leader of WG3 of the COST network WEMov (CA19112), an MC member of COST Action TraFaDy (CA 21143), and a member of WG3 and WG5 of COST Action HIDDEN (CA21120). Before her academic career, Lela Goginava served as a Career Diplomat for 21 years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (1996 - 2017). Additionally, she held the position of Deputy to the Permanent Representation of Georgia to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, from 2007 to 2010.

Pedro Góis is a Professor in Sociology and Methodology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Undergraduate degree in Sociology, masters and PhD in Sociology. He is an expert in sociology of migration and quantitative methodologies. Recently he was consultant or country expert for the International Organisation for Migration (OIM), Caritas International, The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), European Commission or European Migration Network (EMN). His most recent research-driven publications used quantitative and qualitative methodologies and include papers and books on: refugees in Europe; transnational ethnic identity; Portuguese immigration and emigration; Brazilian migration or Eastern European migrants; discrimination practices in the labour market; immigrants' descendants; and diasporic engagement practices and policies.

Steven J. Gold is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His scholarly interests include international migration, ethnic economies, ethnic community development, qualitative field methods and visual sociology. Gold is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of nine books including The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington Press 2002) which won the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the ASA’s International Migration Section for the best book on international migration in 2003. His book Ethnic Economies, co-authored with Ivan Light of UCLA, has received 1496 Google Scholar citations. The chair of 22 PhD dissertations and author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews, Gold received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association in 2007 and was a Visiting Scholar for the Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master’s in International Migration and Social Cohesion program at the University of Amsterdam and University of Osnabruck during Fall 2014. He received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section in 2019.

I’m a Social Anthropologist from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). I have a Master in Medical Anthropology, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology specializing in Medical Anthropology, from the University of Rovira and Virgili (Spain). The title of my research thesis was: “TO BE AN INMIGRANT IS NOT AN ILLNESS”. Immigration, life and working conditions in Spain. The health/illness/care process of Senegalese immigrants in Barcelona”, qualified with honors (2004). Since then, the nature of the work I have performed has been Social, Cultural and Medical Anthropology, Public Health, International Migrations and Refugees, from a trasnational perspective.

I am a social scientist with research expertise in activism and civil society, post-conflict societies, the everyday, migration, inter-ethnic dynamics, identity and gender. My multi-disciplinary background and commitment to visual, sensory and mixed methods shape both my research and my teaching practice.

Montserrat has a PhD in Sociology (2014), degree in Sociology (1999) and an Official Master’s Degree in International Migration, specialising in Migratory Policies and Intercultural Mediation (2009), awarded by the University of A Coruña.
Is researcher in The International Migrations Sociology Group (initials in Spanish: ESOMI) is based in the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña (Spain)

Dr. Shelene Gomes is an Anthropologist who specialises in research, training and advocacy on social inclusion in migratory contexts, migrant networks, female labour migration, remittances, gender and development, gender-based violence, multiculturalism and diversity, and workplace discrimination. Over 10 years of professional experience includes university teaching, research, outreach and consulting with institutions in the Caribbean, Eastern and Southern Africa.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Kadir Has University on the project "The Role of Social Interaction in the Desecuritization of Syrians in Turkey". I completed my Ph.D. in Migration Studies at Düzce University in 2023. My dissertation entitled "Seeking Refuge through Marriage: Marriage Experiences of Syrian Women Refugees in Turkey," examines the marriage and survival experiences of Syrian women who married Turkish citizens after forced migration from Syria.

Researcher. Arabic & Islamic Studies. MRes in International Relations & African Studies. Decolonial responses to colonial practices in Humanitarianism in refugee communities of the WANA region.