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I'm a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews. My research focuses on love and emotional experiences of the transnational Chinese community in Jamaica. I have recently completed my doctoral fieldwork in Kingston (Jan 2023 – Feb 2024). Currently I am the PhD representative of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA).

Layla Zibar is an Urban Researcher and has a Dual Doctoral degree in Architectural Engineering from Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) & KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on the intersections of Forced displacement, territories, spatial transformations, memory and questions of multi-scaler homes. In her PhD, she explored the long history of Kurd forced migration waves in the region and the spatial dimension of “displacements receiving sites” which appear to be (re) aggregating the overall urban landscape.

Ally Zlatar is the founder of The Starving Artist which is an artist initiative that helps broaden perspectives on Eating Disorders and Mental Illness through the artistic voice. Her "This Body of Mine" campaign explores the female migrant experiences from displaced backgrounds and has helped support over 50 international female artists from refugee seeking backgrounds. Ally Zlatar has recieved the highest accolade a young person can achieve for their humanitarian work; The Princess Diana Legacy Award (2021) and also special recognition from The British Citizen Award (2022).

She holds a BFA in Visual Art & Art History from Queen's University & an MLitt Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her Doctorate of Creative Arts is with the University of Southern Queensland focusing on embodied experiences of eating disorders in contemporary art. Zlatar is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (Anderson College, GIC), KICL London, and University of Essex (UEIC).

Johanna O. Zulueta is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Global Diversity Studies, Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University. She received her Ph.D. (Sociology) from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. Her research interests focus on migrations in East Asia, particularly on issues related to ethnicities, gender and families, citizenship, return and home, and ageing. For more than a decade, she has looked into migrations and military basing in Okinawa. Currently, she is examining perceptions on ageing and the end-of-life, as well as social well-being among older migrants in Japan and Malaysia. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, she also edited books about migrations between Japan and the Philippines. She is author of Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Okinawan Women’s Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei (Routledge, 2022).