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MSc. in International Economic Relations. Ph.D.(c) in Political Sciences and Public Administration at University of Warsaw. From 2018 to 2022 worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Lima and taught in the Double Degree program with the University of London. Also, conducted classes in diverse Latin American universities within Cladea Coil, and participated as a speaker in conferences in Belgium, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and the United States. Her Ph.D. dissertation is titled: ¨Integration of Venezuelan Migrants in the Labour Market of Lima: the Role of the Civil Society Organizations.¨

Laila Omar is a Fung Global Fellow (Postdoctoral Research Associate) at Princeton University, with primary research interests in international migration and qualitative methods. More specifically, she is interested in the integration process of refugee and immigrant mothers and youths from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in North America. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 2023. Her thesis, “Times of Uncertainty and Future Projections for Forced Migrants: The Case of Syrian Refugee Mothers and Youths in Canada,” examines the temporal experiences and future projections of Syrian refugee mothers and teenagers after their resettlement in Canada.

Neslihan ONDER-OZDEMIR completed her postgraduate education at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nigel Harwood in the UK. Her research interests are English for specific/academic purposes, medical education, discourse analysis, vocational English, academic writing, and corpus linguistics.

Maggie O’Neill is Professor in Sociology & Criminology and Director of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21) and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures. Maggie is based in the Dept of Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland. She works on issues of asylum, migration, borders and social justice using feminist, participatory, biographical, walking and arts based methods since the mid 1990s when she conducted AHRB funded participatory research with newly arrived Bosnian communities in the East Midlands, UK. Currently Maggie is PI on an IRC advanced Laureate Research Grant EUROBORDERWALKS with colleagues in the University of Zagreb and the University of Lodz.

Onen is pursuing a PhD at the University of Bremen, and working on “Political Agency of forced migrants with diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)”. With a decade-long experience in direct service provision to forced migrations in Uganda, Onen has been working directly with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, including men and boys and households raising children born out of experiences of sexual violence.

In 2017, David Ongenaert started as a FWO PhD fellow at the Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University (Belgium) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Stijn Joye. Currently, he is a member of the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS​), the Center for Journalism Studies (CJS), the Center for Persuasive Communication (CEPEC) and the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR). His research project investigates international refugee organizations’ public communication strategies towards refugee crises by exploring processes of production, content and audience reception. This project is deeply embedded in the academic fields of mediated humanitarianism, distant suffering and strategic non-profit communication.

A full list of publications can be found here: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication?q=%22david+ongenaert%22

Elzbieta Opilowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Head of the Center for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the University of Wrocław and associate member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies/European University Viadrina. Her main expertise is in borderlands studies, memory cultures, European integration and German-Polish relations. Guest Professorship at the UniGr-Center for Border Studies, University of Luxembourg (2021) and at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies (2020/2021). She has been a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/European University Institute (October 2022), Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (July-August 2022), Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig and Centre for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the European University Viadrina. She has been granted scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Alfred Toepfer F.V.S. Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Currently she is co-leading three research projects LYMAS: Life strategies of Young Labour Migrants in Ageing Societies, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation; Horizon Europe International Project: B-SHAPES: Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies; Resilience of cross-border cooperation in Europe – a comparative analysis of German-Polish and German-French borderlands, funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation.

Jeremaiah teaches research methods at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila. He does migration research for a nonprofit thinktank --the Institute for Migration and Development Issues (IMDI)-- as well as for UST. He also does migration journalism.