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I am a Doctoral Student in the East-West Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA). My dissertation proposal on "Outside of American Dream: Exploring the Embodied Psyche of Queer and Intersex Asylum Seekers & Refugees in the USA."
I am also a published author and an intersex educator. My previous academic background includes an M.S. in Nonprofit Management at The New School (NYC) and a B.A. in Sociology at Kemerovo State University in Russia.

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Rut Bermejo is associate professor in Politics at the Law and Social Sciences Faculty (Rey Juan Carlos University) in Madrid. Phd (URJC) in 2007; MA in Politics (University of Warwick) in 2004. BA in politics and sociology (UNED) in 2000; and BA in Law (UCM) in 1996. She coordinates the MA in Criminal Profiling at the URJC. She has been researcher on international terrorism at the Elcano Think Tank (2005-2008) and visiting research fellow at the University of Nottingham (2008).
Her research areas include: justice and home affairs public policies. She has published a dozen of journal articles and book chapters on these issues.

Lisa is a researcher at De Burcht, the Scientific Research Institute for the Dutch Labour Movement. She is interested in the interaction between employment relations and migration, with a special focus on trade union strategies towards migrant labour, posted workers and other a-typical workers.

The main focus of my research is on the intersection of science, society and technology, the social and societal impacts of technology, as well as the individual to societal, ethical to epistemological implications of technology.

2020 - PhD Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies (VID Specialized University)
2017 - 19 Master's in Human Geography (University of Oslo)

Currently conducting my doctoral project, with the provisional title of: "Negotiating belonging in contested spaces: Queer and religious migrants in Oslo and London".
Graduated from the University of Oslo with a thesis exploring the connection between political participation and sense of belonging among migrants in the city of Brescia (Italy).

Research themes: Migration; Sociology of religion; Queer studies; Citizenship; Political participation; Qualitative methods

Pieter Bevelander is professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global political studies and Director of MIM, Malmö Institute of Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Sweden. His main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions and attitudes of natives towards immigrants and minorities. He has a PhD in economic-history and wrote his thesis (2000) on the employment integration of immigrants in Sweden in the period 1970–1995. A number of his publications include the labour market situation of immigrants in a regional setting and the effects of labour market policy measures directed towards immigrants and refugees in Sweden. Moreover, his research contains the socioeconomic and political impacts of citizenship ascension of immigrants and minorities in host societies and the attitudes of the native population on immigrants and other minority groups. His latest research include voting behavior of immigrants and their children as well as the socio-economic impact of the large refugee intake in Sweden during the last decades.
He has co-edited a number of publications of which the latest are Museums in Times of Migration and Mobility: Rethinking Museums Perspectives, Collections, Collaborations and Representations (2017) with Christina Johansson, and with Ruth Wodak, Europe at the Crossroads, Confronting Populist, Nationalist, and Global Challenges (2019). Moreover, he has reviewed for and published widely in international journals and is currently Associated Editor of International Migration Review (IMR) and Comparative Migration Studies as well as in the editorial board of Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Studies. He is a member of the Swedish government commission on Migration DELMI (http://www.delmi.se/en), a member of the Executive Board of the IMISCOE network, a board member of the Metropolis network and Head of the international advisory Board of the Swiss NCCR “On the Move”. He has produced reports on migration and integration for several international organizations like the FRA, OECD, IOM, EU and MPI.