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I have been doing research on various aspects of migration in Finland. Most of my presonal research has dealt with religious associations, including their organisation processes and activities, as well their engagement with public authorities. In addition, I have collarorated in a number projects that have dealt with migrant integration, transnationalism, generations, governance, labour market questions and other ethnic minority issues. I am also interested in demographic data and population projections, in particular how can we estimate future levels of religous and ethnic diversity in western societies in order to evaluate the importance of current developments for future.

Andra-Lucia Martinescu is a Research Fellow with the Foreign Policy Centre (a London think tank) and Co-founder of The Diaspora Initiative, a non-profit research initiative based in Luxembourg, focusing on migration and diasporas. After completing her MPhil in International Relations at the University of Cambridge, Andra continued with a part-time doctorate on the geopolitics of the Black Sea region (which she has yet to submit). She previously worked in various research capacities for the British Army (Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst) and think tanks such as RUSI (Royal United Services Institute for Security and Defence, London) and RAND Europe (Cambridge). Andra is also a diaspora expert affiliated with EUDiF (European Union Global Diaspora Facility, Brussels). Her expertise and research interests include operations and conflict analysis, the geopolitics of the ex-Soviet space, regional histories, transnationalism and civil society, migration, and diasporas, to name a few. Andra's body of work is interdisciplinary and blends advanced quantitative and qualitative methodologies (i.e. Social Network Analysis, satellite imagery and spatial analysis).

I am an expert in childhood and South-South migration who combines an academic and non-profit career: I have worked for more than 10 years with various NGOs, and I was awarded a PhD in Sociology in September 2021, exploring the experiences and identity construction of young West African children living with their families in Morocco.

Born and raised in the Chittagong city of Bangladesh. Studied International Relations at both Bachelor and Master's levels. Currently studying European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations and living at Oldenburg of Germany.

Her main research interests are interdisciplinary and lie at the intersection of tourism, migration and mobility: medical tourism/travel, diasporic/diaspora tourism, VFR tourism, migration-led tourism, transnationalism, and everydayness in tourism.

Nives Mazur-Kumrić is an Associate Professor of International Law, who has chaired various subjects in the domain of International and European Law at the University of Osijek, Croatia since 2000. She holds a PhD degree in International Law (University of Osijek, Croatia) and a Marie Curie postdoc degree in International/Nationality Law (University of Liège, Belgium). Her research interests lie in the area of human rights law, minority rights, citizenship, ethnicity, migrations, state succession, EU law, environmental law, etc. She is the author of the first university textbook on minority rights in Croatian – “European System of Minority Rights Protection” (Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2017). Her studies in International and European Law include EUI, Florence; CEU, Budapest; Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway; Academy of International Law, The Hague; Department of Law, Politics and International Studies, Parma; and many others.

Currently, she holds the position of Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Representation of Croatia to the EU in Brussels, with most of her work focused on the even social, economic and territorial development of the EU. She is also a scientific associate at two faculties of the University of Liège, Belgium - the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Criminology, and the Faculty of Social Sciences. As a legal expert, she regularly takes part in legal studies and assessments of the European Commission in the area of human rights, migrations, citizenship and other topical issues of International/European Law.

Anna Mazurkiewicz, Associate Professor (dr habil., prof. UG), is a historian, a graduate of UG (1999, Ph.D. 2006), chair of the Department of Contemporary History at the Faculty of History. She currently leads the work of the International Border Studies Center at the UG – an interdisciplinary unit established to foster synergies within, and broaden international cooperation outside of the UG networks. She also serves as a Deputy Dean for Research and International Cooperation for the 2020-2024 term.

She has published four books: on the American responses to elections of 1947 and 1989 in Poland, and on the role of the political exiles from East Central Europe in American Cold War politics. Her book: Uchodźcy z Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w amerykańskiej polityce zimnowojennej, 1948-1954 (Warszawa-Gdańsk, IPN-Uniwersytet Gdański, 2016) won the Willi Paul Adams Award, for the best book on American history published in a language other than English, Organization of American Historians, April 2019. She is also the editor of four volumes resulting from international cooperation/projects, including three in English (published in Germany and UK).

Currently she serves as the editor of the book series: “Migrations in History. Past experience, global patterns, memory” DeGruyter (Germany) https://www.degruyter.com/serial/MIH-B/html and the Book Review Editor for Poland „Polish American Studies” (University of Illinois, USA): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/pas.html

Mazurkiewicz the past President of the Polish American Historical Association (2017-2018) and a Board member since 2015. She is also a member of the Inter-faculty Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) for the Study of the Polish Diaspora as well as Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).

Recipient of numerous research grants and awards by Polish and American institutions, Mazurkiewicz was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame, Central European University (Budapest), Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar at the University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Buffalo, Valdosta State University (Georgia, USA) and Fulbright Senior Award, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA.

She teaches contemporary history with a special focus on the Cold War, U.S. history and U.S.-Polish relations, U.S. foreign policy, as well as offers courses in migration and diaspora studies. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-2755