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PhD candidate, History

Im an anthropologist and a senior researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), in Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. I earned a PhD from Aix-Marseille Université on Senegalese migrant women traders in Marseille, a subject I continued to investigate for several years and which led to the publication of my book Travail, sexualité et migration : les commerçantes sénégalaises à Marseille. Before being recruited to the CNRS, I completed three post-doctoral studies and participated in several research projects. During these works I led a crossed reflection on the themes of women migration, migrant enterprise and return migration, while questioning the very notions of mobility and migration.
My current research project focuses on a comparative study of the uses of law and on return migration of the descendants of European emigrants from Latin America to several European countries.

Dr. Cristina BLANCO SÍO-LÓPEZ is 'Marie Skłodowska-Curie' Senior Global Fellow and Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project ‘Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’ (NAVSCHEN) —European Commission Grant Agreement (GA) No: 841201— at the European Studies Center (ESC) — EU Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh and at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
She previously was Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at the European Studies Centre — St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member.
Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA), where she holds the ‘Strategic Partnerships’ and the ‘Visibility and Impact’ Portfolios and directs the ‘Global Passport for Scholars’ (GPS) Initiative. She is also Co-Leader of the GYA project ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art’ and received the ‘Sasha Kagansky’ Interdisciplinary Grant 2021/22 for the GYA project ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Personal Experiences of Global Young Researchers’. Furthermore, Dr. Blanco Sío-López is a Full Member of the Spanish Young Academy / Academia Joven de España (AJE), where she represents the field of History.
She is currently a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab (IPL) Expert and Moderator of the 'Historical Legacies of Free Movement and Migration Policy-Making' IPL Team. She was Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) in 2020-2021, which received the ‘Best Non-European Chapter Award 2020’ by the MCAA.

María Jesús Blasco Mayor is an interpreter and translator who has been teaching interpreting since 1997 at Universitat Jaume I (Spain), both at BA and Master programmes. She has also been invited to lecture at Master programmes in other universities, both nationally and internationally. Her PhD research centered on the comprehension component of conference interpreter training from a cognitive standpoint. She has participated in several research projects on interpreting quality, legal translation and interpreting, and led an interpreting in asylum settings research project. She has published at leading journals, authored and edited volumes on her research interests which include cognitive processes in interpreting training, interpreting quality, medical and legal interpreting and interpreting in asylum settings in Spain, as well as the use of new technologies and corpora in interpreting education. She has organized and taught specialized courses for Administration of Justice officials, the Bar, and legal translator and interpreter associations and UNHCR in Spain. She is a member of the UNHCR (Spanish committee) expert group on interpreting for refugees and is currently working on the edition of an interdisciplinary volume on interpreting in the context of international protection. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AUnETI, where she works as an expert member in the regulation of the professional practice of legal interpreters and translators. She is a member of the research group ECPC at Universitat Jaume I, and is currently working as a researcher of the project RE-CRI Representaciones originales, traducidas e interpretadas de la(s) crisis de refugiados: triangulación metodológica desde el análisis del discurso basado en corpus/Original, translated and interpreted representations of the refugee crisis: methodological triangulation with corpus-based discourse analysis (PID2019-108866RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Dr Karen Block is Associate Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Program, Centre for Health Equity, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She is also the Academic Lead of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s research program, Migration and Social Cohesion and Academic Convenor of the associated Interdisciplinary PhD program in Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies..

My research deals with inequalities and processes of inclusion and exclusion in the labor market, with a focus on ethnic differences (differences according to migration background), sometimes in combination with gender and/or differences across socioeconomic groups. It is aimed at better understanding the prevalence and sources of such differences, focusing in particular on the role of attitudes or stereotypes, discrimination, human and social capital, and the cultural and institutional context (e.g. policies or culture at the workplace and/or country level). I have expertise regarding quantitative research methods and data (surveys/experiments/vignettes/meta-analysis/interviews), as well as qualitative research methods (interviews, qualitative content and document analysis).