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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

PhD in Global Development Studies from the Autonomous University of Baja California. His lines of research are youth, public space, digital cultures, and citizenship.

Belén Fernández Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of A Coruña, Spain. She is member of the Research Team in Sociology of International Migrations (ESOMI). Her main lines of research are migration policies, local integration policies, and comparative policies of immigration. She did research stays at the University of California-San Diego, University of Lisbon, University of Sheffield (UK), University of Poitiers (France) and University of California-Berkeley.

Focus in my research on the transnational role of the diaspora for the development of small towns in Kyrgyzstan. Political participation of diaspora. I use visual language to indicate the common language of groups, group culture in social movements. Visual art for understanding social processes and decolonization of discourse.
I also have extensive experience outside academia, having worked on various consulting and research projects in the field of development, art and culture, policy development and implementation.
I use comparative methods (QCA) and want to do something with diaspora and memory about the civil war in Lebanon, compare Kyrgyz and Lebanese diaspora and its impact on home countries.

Professor at FLACSO-Argentina and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (IICSAL-FLACSO/CONICET). He is the director of the Diploma Superior en Migraciones, Movilidades e Interculturalidad en América Latina (Higher Diploma on Migrations, Mobilities and Interculturality in Latin America). His research interests are Intercultural relations, Jewish diaspora, Jewish-Korean Argentine relationship and academic mobilities in the context of the internationalization of higher education.