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I am a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in material culture, transnationalism, kinship and migrant infrastructure. I gained my PhD in Anthropology at UCL and my thesis looked at parcel-sending in Moldovan transnational families as a shared practice of staying connected across borders. My current project explores transnational parcel-sending practices as a form of solidarity with Ukrainian refugees in Moldova.

I do research on global migration, immobility and transnationalism. My work seeks to explain how migration arises, and how it affects societies, families and individuals. These broad questions have led to research on a range of specialized topics, including migrant smuggling, and remittance transactions, and migration aspirations. My theoretical contributions to migration studies include the aspiration/ability model (2002), the concept of involuntary immobility (2002), the asymmetries of migrant transnationalism (2008), the integration-transnationalism matrix (2014) and the scripting of remittances (2014). I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, l have a strong interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication.

Dr Carrillo Lerma is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) and a Lecturer at Sciences Po - Paris. Her research interests and expertise touch upon diaspora politics, memory politics/politics of memory, social transformation, conflict transformation, and participatory research methodologies.
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Independent Scholar at Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Research experience on Migration, Conflicts and Cultural Integration issues. Former Visiting Scholar at top European think tanks such as CERI (Paris 2015), ISDP (Stockholm 2016), ZEI (Bonn 2017), IAI (Rome 2018), DIIS (Copenhagen 2019), ARENA (Oslo 2020). Project Manager of the "Program for the cultural Integration of Refugees and Migrants" UH/UNHCR (2016-2019), which applied an action research approach to improve the integration of refugees and migrants from the Middle East in Ecuador.

Victoria is a research and policy-oriented professional who holds a PhD from the University of Geneva in Social Sciences. Her main research areas are migrant organizations, migration and development, integration, rights of migrants, labour migration and gender and migration. She has over ten years experience on migration, gender and child protection with international development, humanitarian and non-governmental organizations.

Dr. Toni Cela is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include: migration and education; anthropology of disaster and recovery; disaster health; Haitian youth identity formation; anthropology of education; and diaspora and development. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, is a former Fulbright Scholar and Spencer Foundation fellow.

Jocelyn O. Celero is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Japan Studies Program at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. She teaches courses on Japanese society, culture, politics and economy. She obtained her PhD in International Studies at Waseda University, Japan in 2016. She has published on migration and transnationality of Filipino migrants and Japanese-Filipinos. Since 2019, she has served as Research Fellow/Focal Person for UP-CIFAL Philippines.