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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).

Yassine Khoudja conducted his PhD-project on women's labor market participation across ethnic groups in different national contexts at the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) at Utrecht University and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). From 2017 until 2019, he was working at ERCOMER as a postdoctoral researcher. He is currently working at the Insitut of Sociology of the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.

Dr. Marta Kindler is a sociologist. She works as an adjunct at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation at the University of Warsaw and as research fellow at the Centre of Migration Research.
Marta Kindler’s research focuses now on the role of social networks in migration. She is the co-editor of the book Ukrainian Migration to the European Union: Lessons from Migration Studies (2016)and the author of the book A Risky Business? Ukrainian Migrant Women in Warsaw’s Domestic Work Sector” (2011). Marta Kindler received her PhD from the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the European University Viadrina. She is currently a board member of the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Reflexivities in Migration Studies.

Sandra King-Savic is an international post-doctoral researcher at tUniversity of St. Gallen. She received her Ph.D. in Organization and Culture (DOC) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in February 2019. King-Savić is a lecturer on Migration and cultural studies at the University of St. Gallen, and volunteered as a human rights educator for Amnesty International. She conducted research for the Foreign Military Studies Office in the U.S. before receiving a Swiss National Foundation scholarship for her dissertation on the transversal relationship between migration and informal markets, and received various scholarships, including the Foreign Language and Area Studies and the A&S Study Abroad scholarship from the University of Kansas (KU) and the University of Wyoming (UWYO), where she received her M.A. and B.A. respectively.