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Evren Yalaz is a postdoctoral researcher at GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Migration-Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Her areas of interest include qualitative research in migration studies, research ethics, migrant politics, transnationalism, and social movements.

Yiran Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and iHub at Radboud University. She is also a researcher at Radboud University Network on Migration Inclusion (RUNOMI). Yiran did her PhD at Leiden University on prejudice among underrepresented ethnic children and some social-contextual factors they are exposed to, such as their parents, literature, and COVID-19. Her current research focus is on potential discrimination risks in artificial intelligence in the context of migration.

Ayan Yasin Abdi, is a Ph.D.-fellow at the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. She is a board member of Ph.D. Association of Roskilde University (PARU), and she teaches and publishes in the areas of diasporic cultures, ethnicity and minority studies, the welfare state, transnational ties, migration and mobility, post-migration movements, gender, globalization, decolonial studies, racialization, and postcolonialism. Email: ayan@ruc.dk

My research is action-oriented, primarily informed by social and community psychology approaches. It addresses the socio-structural causes of injustice relating to climate change, racism, immigration, and the nexus between the three. Currently, my PhD research, through the University of Auckland, is exploring attitudes to and the implications of climate change-related migration in Aotearoa New Zealand,working alongside Tuvaluan and I-Kiribati diasporic communities.

Caitlyn Yates is a PhD student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. My research focuses on the journeys of migrants from the African and Asian continents who transit in and through Latin America. In particular, I focus on human security, transit migration, extra-continental migration, migrant smuggling, and borders in Latin America. Currently, I am a fellow in the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI) at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and an affiliate of UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies. I hold a BA in Anthropology from Trinity University and a Master of Global Policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.