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Dr Carrillo Lerma is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) and a Lecturer at Sciences Po - Paris. Her research interests and expertise touch upon diaspora politics, memory politics/politics of memory, social transformation, conflict transformation, and participatory research methodologies.
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Independent Scholar at Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Research experience on Migration, Conflicts and Cultural Integration issues. Former Visiting Scholar at top European think tanks such as CERI (Paris 2015), ISDP (Stockholm 2016), ZEI (Bonn 2017), IAI (Rome 2018), DIIS (Copenhagen 2019), ARENA (Oslo 2020). Project Manager of the "Program for the cultural Integration of Refugees and Migrants" UH/UNHCR (2016-2019), which applied an action research approach to improve the integration of refugees and migrants from the Middle East in Ecuador.

Victoria is a research and policy-oriented professional who holds a PhD from the University of Geneva in Social Sciences. Her main research areas are migrant organizations, migration and development, integration, rights of migrants, labour migration and gender and migration. She has over ten years experience on migration, gender and child protection with international development, humanitarian and non-governmental organizations.

Dr. Toni Cela is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include: migration and education; anthropology of disaster and recovery; disaster health; Haitian youth identity formation; anthropology of education; and diaspora and development. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, is a former Fulbright Scholar and Spencer Foundation fellow.

I am a researcher whose work lies at the cross section of gender,
migration and diasporic studies from a postcolonial feminist perspective. I am Principle
Investigator of a five-year Irish Research Council project on migrant South Asian women’s
experience of accessing support services in Ireland. I am specifically interested in looking at
how ideas around gender, masculinities, and caste migrate transnationally and how it effects
migrant women of colour in Europe. I have actively sought to collaborate with civil society
partners outside academia, narrowly defined, in the co-production of knowledge and the
communication of research findings for societal impact My work has been published and
accepted for publication in leading international peer-reviewed publications including
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, Religion and
Gender, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press. Since finishing my PhD in 2019, I have
led three research projects worth more than €500,000 funded by the Irish Research Council,
and Ireland India Institute, and collaborated on international research projects with colleagues
at Goldsmiths, University of London, Tampere University, Lucerne University, ActionAid
Ireland, ActionAid Nepal. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dublin City University’s School of Law
and Government, I have created and taught modules on postcolonial politics, gender studies
and masculinity studies to DCU’s undergraduate and postgraduate students. In my former role
as an Editor, I have been in charge of the production of 13 top rated academic journals from
Sage Publications.

Ching-An Chang is an associate professor from the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan (R.O.C.). His research interests include 1) Middle East studies (with a special focus on the Levant), 2) refugee, migration, and diaspora in the Middle East, and 3) transnationalism. His work has appeared in International Migration, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Social Inclusion, and Insight Turkey.

Chantanee Charoensri is a sociologist of migration. She is currently the dean of the faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research includes: Thai Daughters, English Wives: A Critical Ethnography of Transnational Lives; Virtual Mobility among Highly Skilled Migrants in Thailand: Mobility movement and virtual mobility; From Migration Studies to Mobility Paradigm: An Evaluation of Frameworks Suitable for a Study of Highly Skilled Migration. She is a project leader for Thai-Norwegian couples in Thailand. Impact of transnational welfare and migration policy on return migration, which is a part of ThaiMig Project funded by Vid Specialized University's excellence in research. She is also a member of a research group : Transnational Intimacy and Migration Process (find out about the cluster here: https://transnationalintim.wixsite.com/website-3/team). Previously, she was a co-researcher for the Thai Entrepreneurs in the UK (Newton Fund).

My scholarship interrogates the significance of social categories as they mediate myriad opportunities and constraints in the everyday lives of immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. I utilize diverse methodologies, data sources, and theoretical perspectives to investigate how ascriptive social categories (race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.) and their corresponding symbolic boundaries are activated, reinforced, and contested within organizations, politics, and popular culture, among others. My current research program consists of three streams: 1) immigrant organizations, 2) immigrant politics and civic participation, and 3) the sociology of music.