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Lorenzo Gabrielli, Ph.D. cum laude in Political Science from LAM­Science Po Bordeaux, France (2011). is post-doctoral researcher at GRITIM-UPF, associate lecturer at Political Science Department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and associate researcher at Centre Emile Durkheim­Sciences Po Bordeaux. He has been visiting researcher at United Nationas University – Institute of Globalisation, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM), and senior visiting researcher at IEMed (European Institute of the Mediterranean). Dr. Gabrielli has also worked as researcher for EUNOMAD ­ European Network on Migration and Development, and for the Fundació Jaume Bofill, Barcelona. His research interests covers the following issues: the multilevel governance of international migration in the Euro­African space; the ‘migration–development’ nexus; borders and bordering/re-bordering processes; the issue of migrant integration; the transnational political participation of migrants, between other issues related with migration phenomena.
Dr. Gabrielli received a B.S. in Law from the University of Trento, Italy (2001), a DEA (MAS) in “Political analysis of Africa and Southern Countries”, from CEAN­Science Po Bordeaux (2002), and a Ph.D. cum laude in Political Science from LAM­Science Po Bordeaux, France (2011). His PhD dissertation examined the development of Spanish immigration policy, underlying his ambiguities and ambivalences through the case of West African migrations. Dr. Gabrielli was granted a Marie Curie PhD fellowship at Deusto University of Bilbao ­ European Doctorate Program of “Migration, Territory and Conflict” (2003­2004), and a fellowship by Bofill Foundation (Barcelona) (2006 ­2007).
He has also collaborated with the MHIC (Museum of Immigration History of Catalonia) where he developed contents and a multimedia application of the issue of forced mobility for the permanent exhibition. He is reviewer for several social sciences journals and book editors.

I am a social anthropologist working on migration, gender and religion and, more recently on academic displacement and refugees.

I am a Social Anthropologist and Youth Worker always interested in exploring the overlaps between the two domains. My PhD research was concerned with young people in the Guatemalan diaspora in Southern Mexico and I am currently working on the AIMEC project exploring 'arrival infrastructures' of migrants in East London. Generally I am interested in topics around diaspora, memory and storytelling especially in regard to youth and intergenerationality. In my ethnographic practice I intend to combine youth and community work methods and principles with those of ethnographic research.

Dr. Eda Gemi is a political sociologist specialized in governance of migration in Southeast Europe and Western Balkans. She is Associate Professor at the University of New York Tirana where she holds the positions of the Head of the Law Department and the Director of ICL Master Program.
Dr. Gemi is Senior Researcher at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where, from 2012 to 2016, she held the position of the Head of Migration Unit. She currently serves as national expert at the OECD Network of International Migration Experts in preparing the annual OECD report of International Migration Outlook. She is also member of Steering Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration (EuroMedMig). Dr. Gemi has authored a series of books on migration, integration, transnationalism, return and mobility in Southeast Europe, and EU-Western Balkan migration system. Her recent publications entitled “Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe: Albanian Mobilities to and from Italy and Greece” and “Integration and transnationalism in a comparative perspective: The case of Albanian immigrants in Vienna and Athens” have been published by the Routledge and the Austrian Academy of Science, respectively. She has published articles in refereed journals (e.g., Ethnicities, International Review of Sociology), and book volumes (e.g., Oxford University Press, Routledge).

Jordi Giner Monfort holds a degree in Sociology. He has participated in various research projects and contracts, with more than 40 publications, including articles, book chapters and monographs. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS-Birmingham). His main line of research focuses on the migrations of the British nationals, with special attention to return movements towards the United Kingdom.