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Javier J. Amores is Research Personnel member of the Observatory for Audiovisual Contents (OCA), Recognized Research Group and Research Group of Excellence of Castile and Leon (Spain). Graduated in Audiovisual Communication and Master in Audiovisual Communication Research with Extraordinary Prize from the University of Salamanca, he is currently developing his doctoral thesis at the same university, with the financial support of the Castile and Leon Regional Government and the European Social Fund. His lines of research are focused on the study of public opinion, coverage and representations of refuge and migration, ways of rejecting migrants, hate speech, analysis of media and social networks, and computational methods applied in social sciences.
Javier J. Amores is a member of the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the Spanish Association for Communication Research (AE-IC) and the Political Communication Association (ACOP).

Megha Amrith has been the leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at MPI-MMG since January 2018. Her research focuses on migrant labour, care, ageing, gender, inequalities, belonging and citizenship, primarily in Southeast Asia, but also drawing upon comparative ethnographic perspectives beyond the region. She is author of the monograph “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2017) and her current research is on ageing migrant domestic workers. Megha Amrith obtained a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge under a Gates Cambridge scholarship. Prior to joining MPI-MMG, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the University of São Paulo (2012-2013) and a research fellowship at the United Nations University Institute for Globalization, Culture and Mobility, Barcelona (2014 – 2017).

Dr Nat Arias obtained their PhD in International Development from the School of Global Studies in November 2023. Their thesis explores how race, gender and border regulation contribute to new forms of surveillance and involuntary displacement for refugee and undocumented migrant women and trans people within humanitarian and social welfare systems in Spain. Their research conceptually bridges postcolonial feminism, critical humanitarian, the colonialities of migration, and trans/queer studies with participatory research methods and activist ethnographies.

A former McNair Scholar (Rutgers U. Class of 2015), Nat contributed to the early career research community at Sussex by supporting engagement and outreach for doctoral researchers through their SAGE Research Hive Scholarship (2021 - 2022).
During their previous work as a public health research consultant, they applied various participatory qualitative research methods to support a range of health and social justice interventions in sexual and reproductive health, post-disaster relief, LGBT+ rights, and barriers to care for disabled migrants. Nat developed and refined several qualitative and quantitative program monitoring and evaluation instruments for NGOs, US state and federal health departments, and international aid organisations. They are a contributing author for the 'Programme Evaluation Technical Report WeSpeakNYC' policy report for the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs in 2018.

Nat is a skilled mixed-methods programme evaluation expert. They have the following technical research skills: Technical Report Writing, Participatory Action Research, Critical Ethnographies, Developing monitoring systems for Public Health and NGO Program Monitoring tools, and creating public health needs assessments.

Dr Arias is highly skilled with the following digital analysis software: NVIVO, MAXQDA, and SPSS for qualitative research.

Complementary to their ongoing doctoral research project, Nat holds the following positions in their research communities:

Leadership Roles:
- Steering committee member, Centre for Advanced International Theory ('CAIT') from 2021-2023
Find out more about CAIT by visiting: www.sussex.ac.uk/cait/

- Sussex Research Hive Scholar 2021-20222
Find out more about Sussex Hive Scholars by visiting: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/research/hive

Undergraduate TEACHING experience
Nat is the Seminar Lead for the following undergraduate modules:
'Gender and Development: Theory, Concepts and Issues' (Spring 2021 - Spring 2024) for the Department of International Development.
'Social Change, Culture and Development' - Seminar Lead Autumn 2023 for the Department of International Development.

A PhD. Candidate at Lahore School of Economics and have been a part of their faculty since 2008, in the department of Economics. My research interests lie in the areas of migration, trade, women empowerment, gender disparities in schooling outcomes and factors affecting child’s health.

I am Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel and Associate Researcher at the nccr – on the move. I hold a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (Florence 2012). My research focuses on the twin challenge of migration and minority nationalism to the theory and practice of citizenship, in a historical and comparative perspective.

Maurizio Artero is a researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. He holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the Gran Sasso Science Institute and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa. He works on international migration, especially in urban contexts, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Cities, Citizenship Studies and Voluntas.