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Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen (Germany). He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and is a research affiliate of the ERC-funded MIGRADEMO project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are political participation and inclusion of migrants with a focus on political parties, elections and civil society organisations. In his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas studied the political transnational activities of Latin American emigrants and political parties in Spain. Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative methods commonly used in political sociology.

Currently a researcher at ENTPE (University of Lyon) and associate researcher at PACTE (University of Grenoble), I hold a PhD in Sociology from Sciences-Po (Paris) that I completed in 2014 on intra-European migration. After my PhD, I have continued to research mobility and especially the links and interactions between different forms of mobility and social stratification.

Tineke Fokkema is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), in the Families & Generations group, and endowed professor Ageing, Families and Migration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within IMISCOE, she is coordinator of the Standing Committee ‘Older Migrants’. She is an internationally regarded specialist on ageing, intergenerational solidarity, migration, and their intersection. In 2014-2018 she was involved in the ERC Research project ‘Families in Context’ led by Prof. dr P.A. Dykstra, focusing on the social implications of growing old in a migration context. Fokkema has extensive experience with analyzing large-scale cross-national surveys (e.g. SHARE, GGS, TIES) and has done fieldwork among older migrants in Italy and Morocco. Fokkema holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has published in leading academic journals (e.g. The Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, European Journal of Ageing, and Ageing and Society).

Post-doctoral researcher in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland. With extensive fieldwork experience in The Gambia, Chile, Morocco, Haiti, RD Congo, Turkey, Romania, and Spain, he does research in migration, transnationalism, (im)mobilities, humanitarianism, and informality. He has been the main editor of the journal Perifèria (2018–2021), and his work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Social Anthropology (2019), Mobilities (2019), Migration Letters (2021), and Social Inclusion (2021).

Diplomate en charge du suivi des questions migratoires.
Expert en mobilités internationales.
Superviseur des agents d’éligibilité en charge de la détermination du statut de réfugiés au Cameroun.
Doctorant travaillant sur le thème : « la Commission de l’Union Africaine à l’épreuve de la gouvernance de la migration internationale ».

I am a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and a migration analyst of the People in Need NGO. I hold a PhD in social geography and regional development from Charles University. In my current research, I focus on Vietnamese Diaspora in Czechia, particularly on Vietnamese settlement in rural settings and their translocal and transnational practices and networks in the context of the CEE region.

Dr Shilan Fuad Hussain is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow expert in Cultural Analysis and Gender Studies. She is an interdisciplinary academic and works on a variety of topics such as Gender, Culture, and Diaspora. Her current work sits at the intersection of sociology and cultural analysis, and its symbiotic relevance to modern society.
https://www.shilanfuadhussain.com/

(Middle-Eastern Studies - Kurdish/Jewish Diaspora)