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Carmen Zamorano Llena, PhD, is Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She is also the Literary Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Nordic Irish Studies, and Series Co-editor of Peter Lang’s Cultural Identity Studies series. She has published widely on contemporary Irish and British fiction and poetry. Her most recent publication is Fictions of Migration in Britain and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and she is also co-editor of several collections of essays, including Urban and Rural Landscapes: Language, Literature and Culture in Modern Ireland (Peter Lang, 2011), and Transculturality and Literature: Redefinitions of Identity in Contemporary Literature (Rodopi, 2013). In 2010 she was awarded a three-year research grant (2011-2013) by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to develop her research project entitled “Globalisation, Migration and Communal Narratives of Belonging: Changing National Narratives in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction.” Over the last decade her research has mainly focused on literature and globalization and literatures of migration in Britain and Ireland, and she has published extensively in these fields of specialization in peer-reviewed publications. She is a participant researcher in the funded NOS-HS workshop series “Temporalities and Subjectivities of Crossing: Contemporary Public Migration Narratives in Europe” (2019-2020). She is also the leader of a research group on literatures of migration in Europe at Dalarna University, whose most recent focus is on media and literary constructs of Muslim identity in Europe, past and present.

PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography of the University of Hamburg, Germany. His lines of research focus on Colombian international migration, transnational migration, and transnational urban spaces.

Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-Barcelona). His main lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship, and immigration. He conducts theoretical and empirical research on migration and in the Mediterranean area. He is the Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration), and of the Master’s Program in Migration Studies at UPF . He is a member of the Board of Directors of the largest research network on Immigration in Europe IMISCOE and Chair the External Affairs Committee. Current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration) and EUMedMi Jean Monnet Network “Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies”.Additionally, he is a member of editorial boards of several academic journals and an occasional contributor to media and policy debates.

For more information about publications: https://www.upf.edu/web/ricard-zapata/

Girmachew received his Ph.D. degree in Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide with Dean’s Commendation. He was a Research Fellow at the Hugo Center for Population and Migration Research, University of Adelaide. His work focuses on migration, remittances, return, reintegration, diaspora engagement and transnational migrant networks. Independently or as part of a team, Girmachew was actively involved in providing consultancy services for various NGOs and International organizations. He has published on the cause and consequences of migration as well as transnational family ties.

I'm a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews. My research focuses on love and emotional experiences of the transnational Chinese community in Jamaica. I have recently completed my doctoral fieldwork in Kingston (Jan 2023 – Feb 2024). Currently I am the PhD representative of the Standing Committee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA).

Layla Zibar is an Urban Researcher and has a Dual Doctoral degree in Architectural Engineering from Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) & KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on the intersections of Forced displacement, territories, spatial transformations, memory and questions of multi-scaler homes. In her PhD, she explored the long history of Kurd forced migration waves in the region and the spatial dimension of “displacements receiving sites” which appear to be (re) aggregating the overall urban landscape.

Ally Zlatar is the founder of The Starving Artist which is an artist initiative that helps broaden perspectives on Eating Disorders and Mental Illness through the artistic voice. Her "This Body of Mine" campaign explores the female migrant experiences from displaced backgrounds and has helped support over 50 international female artists from refugee seeking backgrounds. Ally Zlatar has recieved the highest accolade a young person can achieve for their humanitarian work; The Princess Diana Legacy Award (2021) and also special recognition from The British Citizen Award (2022).

She holds a BFA in Visual Art & Art History from Queen's University & an MLitt Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her Doctorate of Creative Arts is with the University of Southern Queensland focusing on embodied experiences of eating disorders in contemporary art. Zlatar is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (Anderson College, GIC), KICL London, and University of Essex (UEIC).