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I am a sociologist and I work as an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

My research broadly falls under the areas of ethnic and migration studies, sociology of education and family, as well as youth sociology, with a focus on social inequalities. I am particularly interested in how ethnic, social class and gender inequalities are (re)produced or overcome applying a comparative lens.Currently I am working on a research project concerning the parenting practices in diverse settings among caregivers with and without a migration background.

Nina Khamsy is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Nina conducts multisited and multimodal ethnographic research on the role of digital resources in migration on the so-called "Balkan route". Her current project is entitled 'Scales of mobility of Afghan migrant youth in the digital era' (2019-2023).

I am an Associate Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences. My primary area of expertise is Postcolonial Studies . Other areas of research and interest include: Migration, Partition of India, Violence, Human Rights, Climate Change and Teaching.

Themrise N Khan is an Independent development professional with over 20 years of experience in international development, social policy (developing countries) and global migration. She has worked with several bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, and including, but not limited to; DFID UK, Global Affairs Canada, the International Labour Organization, the UN Agency for Migration, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development and the World Bank Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD).

Her main expertise lies in leading qualitative thematic and policy research studies. She has published both academically and as a research practitioner, including for the University of Ottawa Press and the ILO, on issues ranging from development aid intervention in fragile states, to female labour migration in Pakistan. Her interest in migration lies in, among other areas, understanding transnational citizenship, South-South migration regimes and encouraging scholarship in migration research and policy by the South, for the South. She has recently begun a career as an emerging academic teaching international development and migration at Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Nodira Kholmatova is a Doctoral Researcher in the Social and Political Sciences Department with a specialization in Sociology at European University Institute. She is interested in labor migration, gender, and migration governance studies. Her research area includes former Soviet Union countries and Central Asia specifically. Her research focuses on the complex nature of labor migration of women from developing countries and looks at a discrepancy between high female mobility from a traditional (patriarchal) society of the country of origin and reintegration of women migrants in their home society. More specifically, her work examines the constraints female migrants encounter and the strategies that women develop to re-integrate.

She holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Sociology from a Joint Programme in International Migration and Social Cohesion (MISOCO) from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Deusto (Basque Country, Spain) and University of Osnabruck (Germany). She also holds a BA in Sociology from the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan).