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I’m a Research Professor in Migration Studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). My disciplinary background is in Geography, and my overarching research focus is on the dynamics of migration and transnationalism, in both contexts of emigration and of immigration. My research spans different categories of migrants, including refugees, labour migrants and return migrants, and includes the perspectives of migrants, non-migrant populations, and state actors in emigration and immigration contexts.

I am currently a PhD candidate in English Language Teaching Program, Language Studies Track at METU, Turkey. My research interests lie at the nexus of sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography and critical discourse studies. I primarily focus on politics of linguistic identity in migratory and minority contexts; discourses around migration in online and offline settings; return migration; gender, sexuality and language; new media discourses. I am the coordinator of the Discourse and Corpus Research Group (DISCORE) at METU .

Dr. Zahide Erdoğan received her PhD on Social Policy from the University of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt, Turkey. She holds a Master's degree in Public Finance from Gazi University and she is a graduate of Ankara University's Political Science Faculty's Public Administration program. She works as a visiting lecturer in Turkey. She has been working as an expert at the one of the public institutions since 2010. From October 2018 to October 2019, she was a visiting academic at the University of Oxford COMPAS. Her areas of expertise include integration policies, diaspora policies, highly skilled migration

Cecilia Estrada-Villaseñor holds a PhD in International Migration and Cooperation Development from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Master's Degree in International Relations and Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México, where she collaborated for the magazine NEXOS, in which she worked as an editor. She studied specialized journalism at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently Coordinator of the Refugees and Forced Migrants Chair - INDITEX. Coordinator of OBIMID (Ibero-American Observatory on Human Mobility, Migrations and Development) at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain.

Dr. Benjamin Etzold is a social geographer and migration scholar with more than 15 years of experience in studying people’s vulnerability and livelihoods as well as trajectories of migration and patterns of displacement. He works at the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC), a peace and conflict studies think tank.
He led the EU-funded H2020 project TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations of Displacement, 2019-2022), which investigated the translocal dimensions of protracted displacement, as scientific coordinator. https://trafig.eu

Quang David Evansluong is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE), Umeå University.
His research interests center on immigrant entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial opportunity creation process, social integration, diversity, sustainable entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship and sports entrepreneurship. Quang earned his PhD in Entrepreneurship in October 2016 at the Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University in Sweden.

Quang is working on research projects studying (1) transnational immigrant family entrepreneurship and opportunity creation, (2) sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms, and (3) digitalization and digital migrant entrepreneurship and (4) coping and resilience strategies among street vendors entrepreneurs. He has received research grants from FORTE (The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare); VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems); The Broman Foundation for Research and Entrepreneurship; VC ECR Development Awards, the United Kingdom; and NAFOSTED-Vietnam.

He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg and was previously a postdoc researcher at Lund University School of Economics and Management. Between 2016 and 2018 Quang worked as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Enterprise Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England,the United Kingdom.

Quang is a native Vietnamese and has spent his entire adulthood living, studying and working in the US, UK, Canada and Sweden.

Rojan Tordhol Ezzati holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Oslo, Norway. Her PhD dissertation is about contestation over diversity in light of responses to the 22 July 2011 terror attacks in Norway. Her previous and current research mainly addresses us-and-them relations, groupness, and nationalism, as well as migrants’ sense of belonging and transnational ties to their countries of origin. She uses qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews, media document, and TV news analysis. She has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Sociology, and Migration Studies.

Daniel Faas is Professor in Sociology (full professor) and an elected Board Member at Trinity College Dublin, Convenor/Champion of the university-wide interdisciplinary research theme "Identities in Transformation", and founding Director of the MSc Comparative Social Change . His research is in the sociology of migration and consists of three interlinked strands: (1) identities and integration, (2) comparative curriculum analyses, as well as (3) religion and schooling in Ireland and Europe. He has published widely on these topics.

Alia Fakhry is a migration researcher with experience in migration policy in European, Middle Eastern and African contexts. She is currently working as Associate Researcher with the German Council on Foreign Relation (DGAP) where she coordinates a multi-author study on African migration policies and debates. Alia previously worked at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), UN-Habitat, UNICEF Senegal and for the Ifpo (CNRS) in Jordan and Lebanon.

A young professional in the space of migration and refugee rights in South Asia. Been working with UN & other NGOs for almost 4 years in the International Development sector in India as well as briefly at The Hague and Geneva. Currently based in Delhi working with a UK based INGO and running on a volunteer basis India operations of Peacebuilding Projects as well as representing South and Central Asia as as regional focal point for UNMGCY Humanitarian Affairs working group. IHEID Geneva alumni of Masters in International Affairs. Areas of expertise Management, Qualitative Research ,Communciations & Writing,Program design and Advocacy