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A Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he was awarded a PhD in Development Studies; a Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the UK/Horn of Africa-based PENHA; and a Non-Resident Fellow of the African Studies Centre Leiden. With an MA in Public Policy and Management from the University of Potsdam, Germany, his research has focused on the intersection of green economy and climate change, migration/forced internal displacement, conflict, pastoralism, social security, policy analysis, natural resource governance, risk and the dynamics of institutions in development. Tsegay has rich UN/EU/USAID consultancy experience in East Africa.

Dimitrios-Rafail Tservenis holds a PhD in Political Science from the School of Political Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which he completed in 2021. His doctoral research focused on migrant integration in rural areas of Southern Europe. His academic interests include the multilevel governance of migrant integration in Europe and the well-being of migrants, with a particular focus on Greece and Italy. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po in Paris, working on the OPENMIN project which primarily aims at consolidating and expanding a range of Open Science and Open Data initiatives that foster comparative knowledge generation and research capacities on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and Migration Studies in Europe. In 2023 and early 2024, he worked at the Center for Migration and Globalisation Research at Danube University Krems, contributing to the MigFund project, which aimed to trace, analyze, and quantify EU financial allocations for migration and asylum over the past two decades. From 2020 to 2022, he collaborated with the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po on the ETHMIGSURVEYDATA project, which sought to improve access to and reuse of quantitative survey data on the economic, social, and political integration of migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe.

Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, and Dean of the School of Economics and Regional Studies, University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) (2018-). He lectures on human and minority rights, migration and refugee law. He has worked for the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the UN, the EU in human rights and democratisation field missions. Co-director of the Series of Studies of the Research Centre of Minority Groups at Vivliorama publishers (Athens). Author of a series of books, articles and studies on human rights, minorities, migration and refugee law. Special research interests: Minorities, immigrants and refugees in Greece/Europe and language rights, legal position of minorities/immigrants in Europe. Muslim communities in Greece, Christian communities in Turkey and Albania. Indicative works:
Old and New Islam in Greece. From traditional minorities to immigrant newcomers, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston, 2012
Αnnotated legal documents on Islam in Europe. Greece, Leiden/Boston, Brill 2016
“European Islams and Muslim Europes: Some thought about studying Europe’s contemporary Islam”, Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, vol. 5, 2013, pp. 1-18
“Refugees in Greece: Facing a Multifaceted Labyrinth”, International Migration 57/2, 2019, 158-175, doi: 10.1111/imig.12473
«Muslims of Greece: A Legal Paradox and a Political Failure», Oberauer, Nobert, Yvonne Prief & Ulrike Qubaja (eds.), Legal pluralism in Muslim Context, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019, 63-82

Jason Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. His research areas include statelessness, citizenship, forced migration and integration.

Ecological anthropologist with 30 years experience in Europe and Asia, working across NGOs, universities, and government. Major projects on Indigenous knowledge and medicine, Buddhist migrant landscapes, and disabled-led research.

Merve is a doctoral student in Sociology at School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences where she is a part of the research team Work, Family and Intimate Relations. She is also a part of the Newbreed doctoral program (a programme co-funded by the European Comission through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes) within the thematic area of Ageing from a Societal Perspective. She started her PhD at Örebro University in August 2018. Her project focuses on the experiences of older migrant women in Sweden.